Berriault v. Wareham Fire District

Upon this bill for declaratory relief the following facts were established by the pleadings or justifiably found by the trial judge. The plaintiffs own land in the “West Wareham annexation” of the Wareham Fire District (the district). See St. 1907, c. 178 (fn. 2, infra). West Wareham was added to the district by vote of the district at its 1966 annual meeting. At the annual district meeting held on March 11, 1968, the district accepted G. L. c. 40, §§ 42G-42I.1

*162In 1967, the district engaged engineers to prepare plans for supplying water to the West Wareham. annexation and later made…