Sargent v. Board of Education

The plaintiff brings this action as a taxpayer of the city of Rochester, to restrain its board of education and its financial officers from paying the salaries of four teachers of the St. Mary’s Boys’ Orphan Asylum of said city.

It appears that this orphan asylum was incorporated in December, 1864, for the “ maintenance and tuition of orphan children of the male sex, and in particular the' male orphan children of soldiers who have lost their lives in the service of the United States that said corporation is the successor of a similar corporation which had been in existence in Rochester for…