Curtis v. City of Boston

This is a bill in equity by thirteen of the inhabitants and taxpayers of the city of Boston to enjoin payment from the treasury of the award made to abutters under an order of the street commissioners establishing building lines on Province Street, a highway within the municipality. G. L c. 40, § 53. St. 1885, c. 178, §§ 1, 2, 3. And the case is here on the report of a single justice whose findings of fact on unreported evidence are conclusive. Armstrong v. Orler, 220 Mass. 112.

It appears that on July 11, 1922, the mayor transmitted a message to the city council stating that the “ importance…