Loundsbury v. City of Keene

This is an interlocutory transfer without ruling from the Superior Court (Pappagianis, J.). The parties have stipulated that the only question for our determination is the following:

“Whether the plaintiffs have a vested right in the maintenance of their signs so as to prevent the defendant, City of Keene, under its sign ordinance, from requiring the plaintiffs to remove their signs without payment of compensation.”

While we remand for further factual findings, we set forth in this opinion the principles necessary to a determination of the above question.

In December 1970, the Keene City Council…