# Inhabitants of Gloucester v. County Commissioners

> Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · January 29, 1875 · 116 Mass. 579

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6417954

## Case

- **Full name:** Inhabitants of Gloucester v. County Commissioners of Essex
- **Court:** Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- **Decided:** January 29, 1875
- **Citations:** 116 Mass. 579; 1875 Mass. LEXIS 46
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Gray
- **Judges:** Gray
- **Cited by:** 10 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Gray, C. J.
The board of county commissioners has the same power as any court to amend its records according to the truth, upon such evidence, documentary or oral, or recollections of any of its present members who took part in the original decision, as the board in its discretion may deem sufficient. Balch v. Shaw, 7 Cush. 282 . Ellis v. County Commissioners, 2 Gray, 370 . Andover v. County Commissioners, 5 Gray, 393 . Farmington River Water Power Co. v. County Commissioners , 112 Mass.
Petition dismissed.

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