Kelley v. Kennard
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Petition for a temporary injunction, granted by a justice in vacation, and adjourned into the law term. Facts agreed. The plaintiffs are citizens, voters, and tax-payers, and the defendants are a special committee of the city government, of Manchester. December 19, 1879, the mayor and aldermen laid out a highway fifty feet wide in extension of Bridge street across Merrimack river.
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Petition for a temporary injunction, granted by a justice in vacation, and adjourned into the law term. Facts agreed. The plaintiffs are citizens, voters, and tax-payers, and the defendants are a special committee of the city government, of Manchester. December 19, 1879, the mayor and aldermen laid out a highway fifty feet wide in extension of Bridge street across Merrimack river. February 17, 1880, the city councils resolved that a special committee be appointed, with full power to contract for the building of a bridge across the river on Bridge street, at a cost not exceeding $50,000,…
1Opinion of the CourtDob, C. J.
By express statutory provisions, the administration of all the fiscal, prudential, and municipal affairs of a city, and the government thereof, are vested in the city councils; and all powers vested by law in towns, or in the inhabitants thereof, are exercised by the city councils. Perry v. Keene, 58 N. H. 40. These provisions are not expressly modified by Gen. Laws, c. 46, s. 18, which requires the mayor and aldermen to call a general meeting of the inhabitants for any purpose not unconstitutional or otherwise illegal, when requested to do so, in writing, by one hundred legal voters. And…
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