Chamberlain v. Lyndeborough
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Bill in Equity, by certain tax-payers of Lyndeborough, for an injunction to prevent the use of money belonging to the town to assist the Lafayette Artillery Company in erecting a building to be used by them for an armory, and by the town for certain specified purposes.
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Bill in Equity, by certain tax-payers of Lyndeborough, for an injunction to prevent the use of money belonging to the town to assist the Lafayette Artillery Company in erecting a building to be used by them for an armory, and by the town for certain specified purposes. At the annual meeting, held March 31, 1888, under a suitable article in the warrant for that purpose, the town voted “ to raise and appropriate $2,000 to assist the Lafayette Artillery Company in building an armory building, said building to contain a vault for the safe keeping of town records and other valuables, a library…
1Opinion of the CourtBlodgett, J.
It is unnecessary to consider tbe question of the validity of tbe proceedings as to which complaint is made, because, whatever may have been the original equity of the plaintiffs’ case (concerning which no opinion is expressed), they have disentitled themselves to equitable relief by their long and unexplained delay in making the application.
It appears from tbe reserved case that tbe vote which tbe plaintiffs complain of and set forth, making an appropriation of money by taxation for objects alleged to be illegal and unauthorized, was passed at tbe last annual meeting of the town, b olden on…
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