# In re Mayor of Northampton

> Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · March 2, 1893 · 158 Mass. 299

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6424485

## Case

- **Full name:** In re Petition of Mayor and Aldermen of Northampton
- **Court:** Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- **Decided:** March 2, 1893
- **Citations:** 158 Mass. 299; 33 N.E. 568; 1893 Mass. LEXIS 289
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Knowltonlathropbarker
- **Judges:** Barker, Field, Knowlton, Lathrop
- **Cited by:** 17 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Justices Knowlton, Lathrop, and Barker
dissent, on the ground that the St. of 1892, c. 311, should be construed only as a direction to the court in regard to the decree to be entered in a particular case pending at the time of its enactment, and not as an amendment of the general law in regard to grade crossings, establishing for all time and in all proceedings a different rule for the change of the crossings mentioned in the petition from that applicable to other crossings in the city and in the State. So construed, they are of opinion that the statute is unconstitutional.

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