Sedgewick v. City of Dover

The plaintiff, Richard D. Sedgewick, a taxpayer and resident of the City of Dover, filed a petition for declaratory judgment in the Strafford County Superior Court seeking a determina tion that Chapter 238 of the Laws of 1981 unconstitutionally permitted a change in the City of Dover Charter, by altering the operational posture of the Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, without a referendum vote. The plaintiff also sought an injunction prohibiting the defendant Trustees of Wentworth-Douglass Hospital from implementing the provisions of the 1981 enactment. After hearing the plaintiff’s petition for…