Jones v. Inhabitants of Natick

This is a bill in equity by fifteen taxpayers to restrain an alleged illegal expenditure of money by the *568town of Natick. At an adjourned town meeting held on April 17, 1928, under article 78 of the warrant it was voted that the town reimburse the defendant John T. Porter in the sum of $1,202.64 “for overtime service rendered in the street department of the board of public works.”

The case was referred to a master whose findings of fact in the absence of a report of the evidence must stand. The master found the following facts: Porter was engaged by one Oakes, foreman of the highway division of…