Vanderstolph v. Boylan

This writ of certiorari is brought to vacate certain proceedings to lay out a highway, and the plaintiff’s title to prosecute it consists only in his being a tax-payer of the town, and so, potentially liable for some, as yet unknown, but very small, portion of the tax wherewith to pay the appraised damage of $275. We think this interest is too remote and too indirect and indefinite to warrant this remedy, and that any sanction of the proceeding would be an improper exercise of discretion. Were no other ■objection apparent, the single circumstance that the record contains no evidence of any…