Dupont v. Town of Dracut

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• party cannot be estopped from raising defense of illegality in a contract action, and the court is duty bound to raise the issue sua sponte
• municipality cannot ratify a contract that it was not legally permitted to enter into

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).