Murphy v. Duffy

The above entitled cause is a suit in equity in which the complainant, a taxpayer of the town of West Warwick, seeks to restrain the respondent Frank P. Duffy, town treasurer of said town, from paying any of the money of. said town to the respondent John F. McCusker on account of a contract between said McCusker and a committee, appointed by a special town meeting of said town to provide two new schoolrooms to be added to the school building of the town, in the village of Phenix.

The cause was heard upon bill, answer, replications and proof before a justice of the Superior Court. The justice…