New Hampshire Wholesale Beverage Ass'n v. New Hampshire State Liquor Commission

Taxpayers are legitimately concerned with the performance by public officers of their public duties. Their right to the preservation of an orderly and lawful government at the municipal level has been recognized as one which they may protect by injunctive relief, regardless of whether any loss to the municipality is shown or “whether [their purses are] immediately touched.” Clapp v. Jaffrey, 97 N. H. 456, 461. No good reason appears why taxpayers should not possess a like right as to acts of public officers at the State level. See Conway v. Water Resources Board, 89 N. H. 346, 348.

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