Brookline Citizens to Protect the Parks Taxpayer Group v. Board of Selectmen

In April, 1987, the town of Brookline entered into a contract with the intervener (“the Brookline Country Club”, or “the club”) enabling the club to use the grounds of the town-owned Putterham Meadows Golf Course and Lars Anderson Park for parking cars during the 1988 U.S. Open golf tournament scheduled for June of that year. On January 26, 1988, the plaintiffs, a group of ten taxpayers of Brookline, filed a complaint in the Superior Court seeking to enjoin use of either of the two grounds, their contentions being, inter alia, that the selectmen, who had authorized the contract on April 14,…