Stevens v. Board of Water Commissioners

For many years previous to 1917, that portion of the charter of the city of Hartford which constituted the court of common council and established the procedure by which it might enact valid ordinances contained a limitation, as follows: “it being expressly provided that no vote or resolution of said common council, ordering a public work or improvement, which shall require an expenditure of more than ten thousand dollars, shall be obligatory on said city, unless approved by a majority vote of a city meeting, duly warned and holden for that purpose; which vote shall be by ballot.” 5 Special…