POVEY v. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF MEDFORD


333 Mass. 70 (1955)

127 N.E.2d 925

EDMUND H. POVEY & others vs. SCHOOL COMMITTEE OF MEDFORD & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

July 8, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Maher, (Lewis H. Peters with him,) for the plaintiffs.

Mark E. Gallagher, Jr., City Solicitor, (A. Kenneth Carey with him,) for the defendants.

Present: QUA, C.J., WILKINS, SPALDING, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


QUA, C.J.

This case comes to us by appeal after the sustaining of demurrers and a decree dismissing the bill.

The material allegations of the bill are that the fifteen plaintiffs are residents and taxpayers in Medford, that the defendant Murphy is purporting to act as principal of the Hillside and Hervey schools; that the other defendants, except the city of Medford, are the members of the school committee; that the...

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