Gosselin v. City of Nashua

These cases arise from two actions brought by plaintiffs, Bentley Properties, Incorporated and cer tain landowners from whom Bentley purchased land options, against the city of Nashua, its city clerk, and its planning board after the latter had rejected a site plan for a proposed shopping center, at that time a permitted use, on Amherst Street in Nashua. The two actions were tried together. While the trial court found against plaintiffs on their petition for certiorari on the merits of the planning board’s decision, it found in their f&vor on their petition for a writ of mandamus. Initially…