Case Name: William C. Lindsay v. City of Newport
Court: Vermont Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Vermont
Decision Date: 1937-05-04
Citations: 109 Vt. 52
Docket Number: 
Parties: William C. Lindsay v. City of Newport.
Judges: Present: Powers, C. J., Slack, Moulton, Sherburne and Buttles, JJ.
Reporter: Vermont Reports
Volume: 109
Pages: 52–53

Head Matter:
William C. Lindsay v. City of Newport.
February Term, 1937.
Present: Powers, C. J., Slack, Moulton, Sherburne and Buttles, JJ.
Opinion filed May 4, 1937.
William C. Lindsay, pro se.
Hubert S. Pierce for the- defendant.

Opinion:
Moulton, J.
If the plaintiff has a valid claim against the municipality for services performed, disbursements made, or obligations incurred by him as city clerk and treasurer and clerk of the city council, or by reason of any improper interference by the city council with his rights and duties as such, he has an adequate remedy in a court of law, although he cannot expect to recover upon separate rights of action in contract and tort combined in one and the same proceeding, as he has attempted to do in his bill of equity. Ware v. Estabrooks, 73 Vt. 92, 94, 50 Atl. 543; Dean v. Cass, 73 Vt. 314, 315, 50 Atl. 1085. The demurrer was properly sustained. Jones v. Stearns, Admr., 97 Vt. 37, 44, 122 Atl. 116, 31 A. L. R. 653; Holman v. Randolph National Bank, 98 Vt. 66, 75, 76, 126 Atl. 500.
Decree affirmed and cause remanded with leave to the plaintiff to apply for a transfer to a court of law, if he be so advised.