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Hillsborough
    No. 78-030
    City of Manchester v. Ronald Lawton & a.
    
    February 6, 1978
    
      James A. Manning, of Manchester, by brief and orally for the plaintiff.
    
      Cullity & Kelley, of Manchester (George W. Boussos orally), for the defendant.
   The city’s petition to abate a nuisance, RSA 47:17 XIY, alleged to have been created by a fire-damaged building was dismissed by the Superior Court (DiClerico, J.) this date on motion on the ground that RSA 155-B.-2 (Supp. 1975) deprived the superior court of its equity jurisdiction over the subject matter-. RSA 498:1. Because of the urgency of the matter, we expedited oral argument and rule that the remedy provided by RSA 155-B:2 (Supp. 1975) provides a supplemental remedy and does not deprive the superior court of its general equity powers. RSA 155-B:14 (Supp. 1975).

The motion to dismiss should not therefore have been granted.

Exceptions sustained; remanded.