Exeter v. Kenick

The main issue before us is whether procedural rules which were passed at annual town meetings to regulate the method of voting on certain appropriations at subsequent town meetings are binding on such meetings.

At the annual town meeting in Exeter on March 12, 1935, an affirmative vote was cast on the following article: “To see if the town will vote to have all articles other than those legally, or otherwise, regular and necessary placed on an Australian ballot, if they involve, or are likely to involve, the sum of seven hundred fifty dollars or more. This to be done with such articles for…