New York Supreme Court February 15, 1895 (People ex rel. Read v. Board of Town Auditors)

HARDIN, P. J.

In Wells v. Town of Salina, 119 N. Y. 280, 23 N. E. 870, it was said that:

“Towns and other municipal corporations are organized for governmental purposes, and their powers are limited and defined by the statutes under which they are constituted. They possess only such powers as are expressly conferred or necessarily implied.