Attorney General v. City of Woburn

This is an appeal by the Attorney General from á final decree dismissing a petition brought under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 71, § 34, as appearing in St. 1939, c. 294, to have determined an alleged deficiency of $29,500 in the amount appropriated by the city for the support of the public schools for the year 1944, and to compel the city to provide the amount of this deficiency together with twenty-five per cent thereof, as provided for in the said statute.

The evidence is reported and the judge filed findings of fact. We now summarize those facts together with others which we find for ourselves.…