People Ex Rel. Irwin v. . Sawyer

The county judge held that no person who had signed a petition for bonding the town could withdraw therefrom after its presentation to the judge, although demanding to have his name struck therefrom before the testimony was closed. On this ground he included such persons, in determining whether a majority of the tax-payers of the town and who were assessed for a majority of the taxable property of the town according to the last assessment roll, among the petitioners for bonding the town. This is an important question, not only in this, but in a great number of cases arising upon the acts…