Wright and Pierce v. Town of Wilmington, Massachusetts

ALDRICH, Circuit Judge.

Pursuant to a vote taken at a town meeting of defendant-appellee Town of Wilmington, Massachusetts, hereinafter defendant, a committee composed of the three assessors and the town manager entered into a written contract with the plaintiff-appellant, a Maine corporation, which had successfully bid to “tax-map” the town for $11,350. Prior to the execution of the contract one of the assessors, hereinafter the assessor, informed plaintiff that his best estimate of the number of individual parcels or properties was about 4500. 1 The assessor showed the plaintiff the records,…