Halleck v. Inhabitants of Boylston

It was held in Andrews v. Boylston, 110 Mass. 214, that the vote of the defendant town, March 6, 1871, “ to reestablish the school district system,” was defective and insufficient, because the record failed to show that the vote was adopted by two thirds of the legal voters present and voting thereon, as required by the St. of 1870, e. 196. On January 23, 1873, after the judgment in that case,’ the town clerk then in office, who held the office when the vote was passed, and had remained in office by successive annual elections, amended the record by adding to the words “ to reestablish the…