ALVES v. BRAINTREE


341 Mass. 6 (1960)

166 N.E.2d 720

LEONARD ALVES & others vs. TOWN OF BRAINTREE & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

May 3, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. DeGiacomo, (Richard A. Hunt, Town Counsel, with him,) for the respondents.

A. Kenneth Carey, (Donald E. Carey with him,) for the petitioners.

Charles W. Davis, by leave of court, submitted a brief as amicus curiae.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WILLIAMS, COUNIHAN, & CUTTER, JJ.


WILKINS, C.J.

On March 16, 1959, a final decree was entered in the Superior Court in a suit by ten or more tax-payers establishing under G.L.c. 71, § 34 (as amended through St. 1939, c. 294), that the deficiency in the amount necessary for the support of the public schools in the town of Braintree for the year 1958 was $20,550, and ordering the town, its treasurer, selectmen, and assessors to provide that sum by borrowing, as provided in § 34, to meet the...

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