CITY COUNCIL OF BOSTON v. MAYOR OF BOSTON


383 Mass. 716 (1981)

421 N.E.2d 1202

CITY COUNCIL OF BOSTON & another vs. MAYOR OF BOSTON & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 5, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles F. Choate for the plaintiffs.

James W. Perkins (Craig E. Stewart & Harold J. Carroll, Corporation Counsel, with him) for the defendants.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.


ABRAMS, J.

The nine city councillors of Boston, in their official capacity, and individually, together with a tenth resident of Boston, brought this action as a ten-taxpayer action for declaratory and injunctive relief. See G.L.c. 214, § 1; G.L.c. 231A, § 1; and G.L.c. 40, § 53. The plaintiffs sought to restrain the defendants from spending city funds contrary to an ordinance passed by the city council which...

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