Wilton-Lyndeboro Cooperative School District v. Gregg

In this petition for condemnation the defendants contest the right of the plaintiff to condemn their land for the construction of its new junior-senior high school facilities on the ground that certain statutory requirements have not been met, because of the lack of necessity, and because school districts are not empowered to lay out public highways. The plaintiff admits that defendants’ land is “to be taken primarily for access by foot and vehicle and for the installation of utility lines to the school house and for site drainage. ”

The plaintiff is a cooperative school district organized…