Case Title: Mass. Municipal Wholesale Electric Co. v. State

Citation: 161 Vt. 346, 639 A.2d 995

Docket Number: 

State: vermont

Court: Vermont Supreme Court

Date: 1994-02-04T00:00:00Z

Document:
MMWEC_V_STATE.92-440; 161 Vt. 346; 639 A.2d 995

[Filed 04-Feb-1994]

 NOTICE:  This opinion is subject to motions for reargument under V.R.A.P.
 40 as well as formal revision before publication in the Vermont Reports.
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                                 No. 92-440


 Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale            Supreme Court
 Electric Co.
                                              On Appeal from
      v.                                      Washington Superior Court

 State of Vermont, et al.                     February Term, 1993



 Stephen B. Martin, J.

 Stephen S. Ankuda of Parker & Ankuda, P.C., Springfield, and Nicholas J.
   Scobbo, Jr. and Gerald J. Caruso of Ferriter, Scobbo, Sikora, Singal,
   Caruso and Rodophele, P.C., Boston, Massachusetts, for plaintiff-
   appellant

 Jeffrey L. Amestoy, Attorney General, and William Griffin, Chief Assistant
   Attorney General, Montpelier, for defendant-appellee State of Vermont

 Peter H. Zamore of Sheehey Brue Gray & Furlong, P.C., Burlington, and
   Christopher L. Dutton, South Burlington, for defendant-appellee Green
   Mountain Power Corp.

 Edward B. French of Stackpole & French Law Offices, Stowe, for defendant-
   appellee Village of Stowe

 Edward V. Schwiebert and Laura E. Johnson of Abell, Kenlan, Schwiebert &
   Hull, P.C., for defendants-appellees Villages of Ludlow, Hardwick,
   Morrisville and Swanton


 PRESENT:  Allen, C.J., Gibson and Morse, JJ., and Davenport, Supr. J. and
           Ellison, D.J. (Ret.), Specially Assigned



      GIBSON, J.   Plaintiff Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric
 Company (MMWEC) appeals from a summary judgment order declaring valid its
 Stony Brook Power Project contracts with defendant Vermont utilities.  MMWEC

 

 contends that the contracts are void ab initio under Vermont Dep't of Pub.
 Serv. v. Massachusetts Mun. Wholesale Elec. Co., 151 Vt. 73,