White v. Treasurer of Wayland

This is a suit by eleven taxable inhabitants of the town of Wayland against the treasurer of that town seeking to restrain him from paying from the town treasury money contrary to law. G. L. c. 40, § 53. The case was submitted to the trial judge on the pleadings and an agreed statement of facts. The ruling was made that the plaintiffs could not maintain their bill, and a final decree was entered dismissing the bill. The plaintiffs appealed.

The facts pertinent to the grounds of this decision are these: The town of Wayland duly accepted St. 1878, *469e. 80, entitled “An Act to Supply the Town of…