Vermont Gas Systems, Inc. v. City of Burlington

The Urban Benewal Project in the City of Burlington discontinued some sections of certain streets and razed a number of residential buildings. As a consequence, the plaintiff had to discontinue and abandon certain of its service lines, capping and purging them. Since part of its distribution grid was interrupted by these discontinuities, the plaintiff also had to run a new distribution line along another street in order to maintain service to the northern end of the city. This represented a considerable expense to the plaintiff company and they sued the city to recover it. The trial court…