Garvie v. City of Hartford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Shit for an injunction against the payment by the defenriant city of a sum of money, under a vote of the common council of the city, as compensation to one of its standing committees; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Hartford. The defendant filed an answer, to which the plaintiff demurred, and the ease was reserved upon the pleadings for the advice of this court. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
On March 22d, 1886, the court of common council of the city of Hartford passed the following resolution : “ Resolved—that the city auditor be and he is hereby instructed to draw his order on the city treasurer in favor of the joint standing committee on bathing house for two hundred and fifty dollars, for services rendered the past year.” The plaintiff, a tax-payer, asks that the city and its treasurer may be restrained from honoring the order. In its answer the city saysr-
“ Said committee on bathing-house was composed of Asa S. Cook, George H. Brown and Henry P. Hitchcock, who were members…
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