COLTEN v. HAVERHILL


409 Mass. 55 (1991)

564 N.E.2d 987

STANLEY W. COLTEN vs. CITY OF HAVERHILL & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

January 7, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Krasnoo for the plaintiff.

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

William D. Cox, Jr. (Carolyn Morton with him) for the intervener.

James M. Shannon, Attorney General, & David E. Sullivan, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the Secretary of the Commonwealth, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., ABRAMS, NOLAN, O'CONNOR, & GREANEY, JJ.


ABRAMS, J.

This case concerns the 19892 at-large election for nine seats on the city council of the city of Haverhill. The board of registrars of voters of Haverhill declared Marjorie Goudreault, the intervener in this case, the ninth-place finisher, and Stanley W. Colten, the plaintiff, tenth. A Superior Court judge also concluded that Goudreault won the election. The Appeals Court reversed, ordering a runoff election between Colten and...

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