Murphy v. City of Cambridge

These are the plaintiffs ’ appeals from final decrees in the Superior Court which dismissed two bills in equity for declaratory decrees brought by five professional employees in the school department of Cambridge against the city and the members of the school committee seeking a declaration as to the validity of a referendum petition and the ensuing vote on November 5, 1957. Demurrers were overruled.

The bills alleged and the answers admitted the following: In a series of votes culminating in a vote in open session on December 18,1956, the school committee voted to establish seventeen new…