Watt v. Town of Chelmsford

This is a petition by more than ten taxable inhabitants of Chelmsford, under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 71, § 34, as it appears in St. 1939, c. 294, to determine the amount of the deficiency in the amount appropriated for the support of public schools for 1947, and to require the town of Chelmsford to provide a sum of money equal to the deficiency, together with a sum equal to twenty-five per cent thereof. The case was submitted to the Superior *700Court upon agreed facts. The school committee submitted to the town its itemized estimates, requesting an appropriation of $218,712 for the support of public…