Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court October 15, 1872 (Bennett v. City of New Bedford)

Colt, J.

The plaintiffs, citizens and tax payers of New Bed-ford, allege that the officers of that city are proceeding to construct an aqueduct for the purpose of diverting the water of a certain brook into it, intending also to use it as a common sewer ; and that this work requires a large expenditure of money, which must eventually come from the taxable inhabitants, and is undertaken without