Bullard v. Allen

R. S., Chap. 82, Sec. 6, Par. XIII. provides as follows: “When counties, cities, towns, school districts, village *252or other public corporations, for a purpose not authorized by law, vote to pledge their credit, or to raise money by taxation or to exempt property therefrom, or to pay money from their treasury, or if any of their officers or agents attempt to pay out such money for such purpose, the court shall have equity jurisdiction on petition or application of not less than ten taxable inhabitants thereof, briefly setting forth the cause of complaint.”

Admittedly the plaintiffs are ten…