CLARK v. MAYOR OF GLOUCESTER


336 Mass. 631 (1958)

147 N.E.2d 191

AGNES M. CLARK & others vs. MAYOR OF GLOUCESTER & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

January 8, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Albert, for the petitioners.

James H. Bagshaw, for the respondents.

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


RONAN, J.

This petition is captioned "Petition by Ten Citizens under G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 40, § 53," and purports to be signed by ten taxable inhabitants of Gloucester. It alleges that the city is about to incur an obligation to convey a certain parcel of land which was devised to it by one Huntress, together with a sum of money, for the purpose of maintaining a perpetual home "for indigent females, of sixty years of...

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