Case law

Patch v. City of Boston

146 Mass. 52 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 9, 1888

Worcester v. County Commissioners, 100 Mass. 103 . To a similar effect is Riley v. Lowell, 117 Mass. 76 . … See Flint v. Flint, 6 Allen, 34 . Whitman v. Boston & Maine Railroad, 7 Allen, 313 .

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Retirement Board

397 Mass. 734 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 12, 1986

See Brown v. Taunton, 16 Mass. App. Ct. 614, 619 (1983) (public employee whose term of office expired during suspension not precluded by G. … An employee has not “retired” until affirmative action has been taken by the board on his application. See Brown v. Taunton, 16 Mass. App. Ct. 614 , 619 n.6 (1983).

Bongiorno v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

417 Mass. 396 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 31, 1994

Co. v. Breese, 138 Ariz. 508 (Ct. App. 1983); Mt. Pleasant Special Sch. Dist. v. Gebhart, 378 A.2d 146 (Del. Ch. 1977); Sladek v. … Section 15 requires that “no settlement by agreement shall be made with [a third party] without the approval of either the board, the reviewing board, or the court in which the action has been commenced after a hearing in

County Personnel Board v. Third District Court of Eastern Middlesex

369 Mass. 972 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 3, 1976

See Beaumont v. Director of Hosps. & Superintendent of the Boston City Hosp. 338 Mass. 25, 26-27 (1958); Daley v. District Court of W. Hampden, 304 Mass. 86, 90-94 (1939). Cf. Luacaw v. … The scope of review thereunder was defined by Chief Justice Qua in Sullivan v. Municipal Court of the Roxbury Dist. 322 Mass. 566, 573 (1948), cited in Commissioners of Civil Serv. v.

Bible Baptist Church of Plymouth, Inc. v. Board of Assessors

391 Mass. 1015 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 13, 1984

(church), appeals from a decision of the Appellate Tax Board (board) dismissing on jurisdictional grounds the church’s appeal from a decision of the board of assessors of Plymouth (assessors) disallowing the church’s applications … The board, therefore, had no jurisdiction to review the disallowance of the application; the 1981 appeal was correctly dismissed. Roda Realty Trust v. Assessors of Belmont, 385 Mass. 493, 495 (1982).

Hubbard v. Lyman

90 Mass. 520 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 15, 1864

The only title set up by the defendant is as a creditor of William Brown, under an attachment of the tobacco as Brown’s property. … But it is very clear that the property was not Brown’s at the time of the attachment, because all his right in it had passed by the assignment in insolvency to his assignee.

Brightman v. Bates

175 Mass. 105 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 3, 1900

Brown v. Pacific Mail Steamship Co. 5 Blatchf. 525, 527 . See Greene v. Nash, 85 Maine, 148. Supposing that the committee had been trustees, what would the syndicate agreement have amounted to then? … Affirmed, according to Beach, Corporations, § 304, n. 6, and Fisher v. Bush, 35 Hun, 641 , in 86 N. Y. 618 . See Brown v. Pacific Mail Steamship Co. 5 Blatchf. 525, 527 .

Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers of New York, Inc. v. Board of Appeal

454 Mass. 374 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 24, 2009

Roberts v. Southwestern Bell Mobile Sys., Inc., 429 Mass. 478, 487 (1999), quoting MacGibbon v. Board of Appeals of Duxbury, 356 Mass. 635, 639 (1970); Zaltman v. Board of Appeals of Stoneham, 357 Mass. 482, 485 (1970). … DiGiovanni v. Board of Appeals of Rockport, 19 Mass. App. Ct. 339, 343 (1985).

McDonald v. Superior Court

299 Mass. 321 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 1, 1938

Brown v. Lowell, 8 Met. 172 , 174. Copeland v. Mayor & Aldermen of Springfield, 166 Mass. 498, 504 . O’Connor v. Boyden, 268 Mass. 111, 114 . … People v. Wabash Railroad, 276 Ill. 92 . Dewey v. Des Moines, 101 Iowa, 416 . Dowty v. Pittwood, 23 Mont. 113 . McLaughlin v. Newark, 28 Vroom, 298 .

Playboy of Boston, Inc. v. Board of Appeal of Boston

359 Mass. 66 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 16, 1971

Upon appeal to the board, a variance was granted by a decision which in somewhat general language states the *67 purported reasons for the board’s action. … There is no basis for knowing what harm, if any, will be caused to the plaintiffs if the variance is not set aside, or of other equitable considerations which, in accordance with our decision of today in Damaskos v.

Gilet v. City Clerk of Lowell

306 Mass. 170 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 29, 1940

See Flood v. Hodges, 231 Mass. 252 ; Shannon v. Mayor of Cambridge, 231 Mass. 322 ; Leonard v. School Committee of Springfield, 241 Mass. 325 ; Averell v. Newburyport, 241 Mass. 333 ; Daly v. … If each detailed item should be reduced pro rata, it is apprehended that difficulties might arise similar to those present in Barnard v. Lynn, 295 Mass. 144 , and cases that have followed it. It is true that in Brown v.

Clifford's Case

337 Mass. 129 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 5, 1958

Brown’s Case, 334 Mass. 343, 348 . … On cross-examination, some of his admissions unquestionably cast substantial doubt upon his opinion but not, as we read the evidence, to an extent sufficient to destroy its foundation (compare Brown v.

American Lithuanian Naturalization Club, Athol, Mass., Inc. v. Board of Health

446 Mass. 310 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 22, 2006

We have long recognized that the rule making authority of local boards of health is broad. See Independence Park, Inc. v. Board of Health of Barnstable, 403 Mass. 477, 480 (1988) (G. … Board of Health of Barnstable, 433 Mass. 217, 220 (2001), stand “on the same footing as would a statute,” Padden v. West Boylston, 64 Mass. App. Ct. 120, 124-125 (2005), quoting Druzik v.

Commonwealth v. McGarty

351 Mass. 707 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 5, 1967

The parole board’s failure to serve the revocation warrants did not constitute interference by the board with the judicial function, nor has there been any denial to McGarty of the equal protection of the laws. … General Laws e. 279, §§ 8 and 8A, and Brown v. Commissioner of Correction, 336 Mass. 718 (relied upon by McGarty), would not require any different result. Appeal dismissed.

American Broaching Machine Co. v. Members of Marlborough Board of Trade

231 Mass. 522 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 2, 1919

The plaintiff LaPointe alleges that he was looking for a factory site in Marlborough and conferred, with members of the board of trade of that city. … See McNeil v. Ames, 120 Mass. 481, 486 . No reason is shown for restraining the Marlborough ■ Building Association from prosecuting the actions at law.

Bushway Ice Cream Co. v. Fred H. Bean Co.

284 Mass. 239 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 25, 1933

Brown v. Little, Brown & Co. (Inc.) 269 Mass. 102, 110 . … Co. v. Sortwell, 8 Allen, 217 , where a special meeting of the stockholders was called by the board of directors of a corporation under a statutory power “to manage and conduct all the business” of the corporation.

First National Bank of Cape Cod v. BOARD OF BANK INC.

361 Mass. 381 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 10, 1972

We have held in Natick Trust Co. v. Board of Bank Incorporation, 337 Mass. 615, 617 , and City Bank & Trust Co. v. … L. c. 231A confers jurisdiction on the court to review the board’s action on this question. Compare South Shore Natl. Bank v. Board of Bank Incorporation, 351 Mass. 363 . 2.

Commonwealth v. Thomas

399 Mass. 165 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 5, 1987

Commonwealth v. Brown, 378 Mass. 165, 170-171 (1979). Commonwealth v. Grace, 370 Mass. 746, 751 (1976). Commonwealth v. DeChristoforo, 360 Mass. 531, 542 (1971). … See Commonwealth v. Grace, 397 Mass, at 306; Commonwealth v. Brown, supra at 171-172 .

Doe, SORB No. 496501 v. Sex Offender Registry Board

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 17, 2019

Doe v. … Doe v.

Shea v. Sullivan

261 Mass. 255 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 22, 1927

Joyce v. Parkhurst, 150 Mass. 243 . Bates v. Reynolds, 195 Mass. 549 . Keefe v. Hart, 213 Mass. 476 . Wax v. McGrath, 255 Mass. 340 . … The trial judge instructed the jury in part as follows: “There is no evidence that they [the defendants] had authorized Sergeant Brown, or Officer Brown as he then was, or the captain, or any one else to make the contracts