Holt v. Antrim
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Bill in Equity, by tax-payers in Antrim against that town and the Antrim academy, for an injunction to restrain the defendants from carrying into effect certain votes of the town, passed at the annual meeting, 1884, recited in the bill substantially as follows : 1. That the town build an academy building upon the land donated to the Antrim Academy Association by D. M. Weston, to cost not exceeding ten thousand dollars, whenever fifteen thousand dollars is given to this…
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Bill in Equity, by tax-payers in Antrim against that town and the Antrim academy, for an injunction to restrain the defendants from carrying into effect certain votes of the town, passed at the annual meeting, 1884, recited in the bill substantially as follows : 1. That the town build an academy building upon the land donated to the Antrim Academy Association by D. M. Weston, to cost not exceeding ten thousand dollars, whenever fifteen thousand dollars is given to this association as a permanent fund, and when the trustees of said academy association shall have contracted with responsible…
1Opinion of the CourtBingham, J.
Section 5, c. 202, Laws- of 1883, authorizing the town of Antrim to raise $10,000, by loan or taxation, “ for the purpose of erecting a school-building,” and to give a perpetual lease of the same to a corporation called Antrim academy “for school purposes without payment of rent,” is to be so construed, if it reasonably may be, as to be consistent with a presumed legislative intent not to give an unconstitutional and void sanction to taxation for a private purpose. Opinion of the Justices, 41 N. H. 553, 555; Cooley Const. Lim. 184, 185; 2 Dillon Mun. Corp. (3d ed.), s. 736; Cooley Tax. (2d…
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