Legal Opinion
Bog Lake Co. v. Town of Northfield
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided February 28, 2008PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMead, J.
[¶ 1] Bog Lake Company appeals from a judgment entered by the Superior Court (Washington County, Hunter, J.) granting the Town of Northfield’s motion to dismiss Bog Lake Company’s complaint for declaratory judgment. The complaint sought an order declaring that Northfield’s residents erred in construing the town’s shoreland area ordinance at the 2005 town meeting, where they unanimously voted against Bog Lake Company’s request to reclassify its land from strict resource protection to limited residential/recreational. The Superior Court dismissed the complaint pursuant to M.R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6),…
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