Adams v. Selectmen of Northbridge

This is a suit brought by thirteen taxable inhabitants of the town of Northbridge against the selectmen and town treasurer of that town and others under G. L. c. 40, § 53. The allegations of the bill in substance and effect are that the selectmen are maintaining a police force, appointing and paying a chief of police, and proposing other expenditures in connection with such police force, all contrary to law. The prayers of the bill are to restrain further expenditures of that kind.

Allegations and prayers respecting expenditures made in years prior to 1925 need not be considered. Fuller v.…