Butler v. Selectmen of Wakefield

This is a petition, brought by a citizen and taxpayer of the town of Wakefield against the selectmen of that town, for a writ of prohibition to restrain them from entering into an agreement with the Heywood-Wakefield *586Company in accordance with a vote of the town. It sets forth in Ml St. 1906, c. 249, which authorizes the town “for the purposes of surface and ground drainage and for the protection of the public health” to “improve the brooks and natural streams and water courses in said town” and to take or purchase property and enter into contracts for that purpose, and alleges the…