White v. Town of Stamford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition for an injunction ; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County. The following facts were found by a committee.
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Petition for an injunction ; brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County. The following facts were found by a committee. The General Assembly, at its May session, 1868, passed a resolution authorizing the town of Stamford to issue bonds to the amount of $100,000, for the purpose of raising a fund to be called “ The Town Hall Fund,” to be applied to purchasing a site for, and erecting thereon, a town hall, with proper furniture for the same; the resolution containing a condition that it should be accepted by the town at a town meeting specially called for the purpose. The town, at a town…
1Opinion of the CourtSeymour, J.
The first point pressed by the counsel for the respondents in the present case, is that the town has power to do what it is doing without the aid of special legislation.
We do not doubt the power of towns to build town halls for their public meetings, and, if the building is solely for the purposes of a hall, the town within reasonable limits must judge for itself of the size and style of the structure. But it is obvious that the building complained of is not a mere town hall. It indeed contains a hall in its third story, but the other stories are to a considerable extent to be rented, in the…
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