COLTEN v. HAVERHILL

No. 90-P-315.

29 Mass. App. Ct. 268 (1990)

559 N.E.2d 1253

STANLEY W. COLTEN vs. CITY OF HAVERHILL; MARJORIE GOUDREAULT, intervener.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

September 20, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John S. Provanzano for the plaintiff.

Ashod N. Amirian, Assistant City Solicitor, for city of Haverhill.

William D. Cox, Jr., for the intervener.

Present: KASS, SMITH, & IRELAND, JJ.


IRELAND, J.

This case involves a dispute between Marjorie Goudreault and Stanley Colten, who finished ninth and tenth in the November, 1989, election for nine places on the city council in Haverhill. After a recount, only four votes separated Goudreault and Colten. (Goudreault had 5,197 and Colten had 5,193.) Colten filed a complaint in the Superior Court, challenging the count. The judge who heard the case rejected...

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