Town of Derry v. Adams

This case involves a petition for declaratory judgment brought under RSA 491:22 by plaintiff Town of Derry to determine the composition of the town’s planning board subsequent to elections held at the town meeting on March 11, 1980. The Superior Court (Bean, J.) approved the Master’s (Charles T. Gallagher, Esq.) recommendation that “[t]he planning board . . . consists of three members who were elected for three-year terms in 1978 and 1979, whose terms expire at the town meetings of 1981 and 1982 as the case may be, and when the successor of each of them has been elected and qualified. The…