Foster v. Angell

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to issue against Frank 0. Angell, Town Treasurer of the town of North Providence, to compel him to pay to the relator two certain bills of his against said town, amounting in the aggregate to the sum of $35, which bills have been approved and ordered paid by the town council thereof, but notwithstanding which approval the respondent town treasurer refuses to pay.

The proof submitted shows that on June 8, 1895, at a financial town meeting held in said town, an appropriation of $2,600 was made for town officers; that on June 10, 1895, the relator was…