Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court May 9, 1890 (Connolly v. Inhabitants of Beverly)

C. Allen, J.

It was determined in Minot v. West Roxbury, 112 Mass. 1, and Coolidge v. Brookline, 114 Mass. 592, that, as the statutes then stood, a town could not lawfully expend money in advocating or opposing before a.legislative committee the annexation of the whole or a part of its territory to another town. By the St. of 1889, c.