LANCASTER — In a dispute over a gravel road crossing over the Presidential Rail Trail in Jefferson, Coos County Superior Court Judge Peter Bornstein has rejected a request for an injunction to stop the state from blocking the crossing.
In his ruling issued Tuesday, Bornstein denied Muddy Paw Holding Co.’s motion for a preliminary injunction against the N.H. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. The judge said the plaintiff had not demonstrated “a reasonable likeliness of success on the merits of its expressed easement claims and its implied easement claims.”
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