Lindsay v. City of Newport

If the plaintiff has a valid claim against the municipality for services performed, disbursements made, or obligations incurred by him as city clerk and treasurer and clerk of the city council, or by reason of any improper interference by the city council with his rights and duties as such, he has an adequate remedy in a court of law, although he cannot expect to recover upon separate rights of action in contract and tort combined in one and the same proceeding, as he has attempted to do in his bill of equity. Ware v. Estabrooks, 73 Vt. 92, 94, 50 Atl. 543; Dean v. Cass, 73 Vt. 314, 315, 50…