Loomis v. McCahey

Mr. Justice Denis E. Sullivan

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a decree of the superior court, wherein an injunction was issued on the amended complaint of plaintiffs as citizens, residents and taxpayers, restraining the hoard of education and its officers from continuing in employment certain principals of schools who had been appointed after examination, and invalidating the eligible list prepared as a result of such examination. The trial court found for the complainants, and defendants bring this appeal.

The amended bill filed in this cause, after eliminating many…