Ogden v. Selectmen of Freetown

This is a bill in equity by eleven taxpayers to restrain an alleged illegal expenditure of money by the town of Freetown. The case was heard upon bill and answer. The relevant facts thus disclosed are that at a special town meeting held on March 30, 1926, upon a warrant containing an appropriate article, it was voted that $12,500 be raised and appropriated for the construction of asphalt macadam on North Main Street, in conjunction with like sums contributed by the State and county, and of water bound macadam on Braley Road. On the record of the meeting it *141further is stated: “Vote taken by…