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  • Mazzaro v. Paull

    372 Mass. 645 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 2, 1977

    In Ramsland v. … Brown, 121 Mass. 69, 81 (1876). Commonwealth v. Sturtivant, 117 Mass. 122, 139 (1875). Washburn v. Cuddihy, 8 Gray 430 , 431 (1857). Commonwealth v. Wilson, 1 Gray 337 , 338-339 (1854). Ashworth v.

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • Loring Hills Developers Trust v. Planning Bd. of Salem

    374 Mass. 343 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 6, 1978

    Review by the planning board of the board of health report. In United Reis Homes, Inc. v. … Judicial review of the board of health report. In United Reis Homes, Inc. v.

    Cited 23 timesPublished
  • Balles v. Babcock Power Inc.

    476 Mass. 565 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 6, 2017

    See Tupper v. … See Chokel v.

    Cited 106 timesPublished
  • City of Boston v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

    373 Mass. 819 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 7, 1977

    Lynch v. Fall River, 336 Mass. 558 (1958); Leonard v. School Comm. of Springfield, 241 Mass. 325 (1922). … Consolidated Cigar Corp. v. Department of Pub. Health, 372 Mass. 844, 845 (1977). Attorney Gen. v. Kenco Optics, Inc., 369 Mass. 412, 418 (1976). Haverhill Manor, Inc. v. Commissioner of Pub.

    Cited 52 timesPublished
  • Sheahan v. School Committee of Worcester

    359 Mass. 702 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 22, 1971

    Inc. v. A. L. A. Constr. Co. 343 Mass. *708 425, 427. Charles L. Hazelton & Son, Inc. v. Teel, 349 Mass. 617, 621 . … Clark v. City Council of Waltham, 328 Mass. 40, 41 , and cases cited. Albano v. Selectmen of So. Hadley, 341 Mass. 494, 496 . Moran v. Secretary of the Commonwealth, 347 Mass. 500, 504 .

    Cited 16 timesPublished
  • United States Drainage & Irrigation Co. v. City of Medford

    225 Mass. 467 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 5, 1917

    The contracts in the case at bar were made by the officers of the board of health, a department of the city of Medford, on behalf of the city. Spring v. Hyde Park, 137 Mass. 554, 555 . Worcester Board of Health v. … The plaintiff was chargeable with knowledge of the limitations of the contractual powers of the board of health, and is barred from any recovery. Douglas v. Lowell, 194 Mass. 268 . Bartlett v. Lowell, 201 Mass. 151 .

    Cited 26 timesPublished
  • Tanzilli v. Casassa

    324 Mass. 113 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 30, 1949

    Prusick v. Board of Appeal of Boston, 262 Mass. 451, 457 . Phillips v. Board of Appeals of Springfield, 286 Mass. 469, 472 . Leahy v. Inspector of Buildings of New Bedford, 308 Mass. 128, 133 . Brackett v. … We think the evidence justified the board of appeals in authorizing the variance granted. Hammond v. Board of Appeal of Springfield, 257 Mass. 446 . Marinelli v. Board of Appeal of Boston, 275 Mass. 169, 173 .

    Cited 33 timesPublished
  • Spring v. Inhabitants of Hyde Park

    137 Mass. 554 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 29, 1884

    Belfast v. Leominster, 1 Pick. 128 . Oakham v. Sutton, 13 Met. 192 . Ireland v. Newburyport, 8 Allen, 73 . Smith v. Peabody, 106 Mass. 262 . Aldrich v. Blackstone, 128 Mass. 148 . … Springfield v. Worcester, 2 Cush. 52 . Salem v. Eastern Railroad, 98 Mass. 431 . Winthrop v. Parrar, 11 Allen, 398 . Watertown v. Mayo, 109 Mass. 315 . Taunton v. Taylor, 116 Mass. 254 . Labrie v. Manchester, 59 N.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Nelson v. Commissioner of Correction

    390 Mass. 379 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 10, 1983

    The reliance by a disciplinary board on the secondary information of a reporting officer without any primary evidence of guilt being presented to the board, is to compound the prospect for abuse. See Finney v. … Hence, on remand, the judge should order, if requested, a new hearing by a disciplinary board. 23 Judgments reversed. 2 See Real v. Superintendent, Mass. Correctional Inst., Walpole, post 399 (1983); Lamoureux v.

    Cited 78 timesPublished
  • Southard v. Southard

    262 Mass. 278 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 10, 1928

    Stratton v. Stratton, 77 Maine, 373, 380, and cases cited. See in this connection Brown v. Brown, 222 Mass. 415, 416, 417 , and 19 C. J. 278, 279. The court had jurisdiction of the subject matter. G. L. c. 208, § 34. … Stratton v. Stratton, supra. O’Hagan v. O’Hagan, 4 Iowa, 509 . Burr v. Burr, 10 Paige, 20 ; affirmed 7 Hill, 207 . Storey v. Storey, 125 Ill. 608 . Stone v. Bayley, 75 Wash. 184 ; 48 L. R. A. (N. S.) 429.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • SDK Medical Computer Services Corp. v. Professional Operating Management Group, Inc.

    371 Mass. 117 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 20, 1976

    See, e.g., Brown & Allen v. Jacobs’ Pharmacy Co., 115 Ga. 429, 437 (1902); 54 Am. Jur. 2d Monopolies § 455 (1971). … To the extent that the cases permit suit by others than the Attorney General to challenge the ultra vires acts of a public charitable trust (see Grillo v. Board of Realtors of the Plainfield Area, 91 N.J.

    Cited 18 timesPublished
  • Scannell v. State Ballot Law Commission

    324 Mass. 494 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 30, 1949

    Hough v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board, 309 Mass. 534, 535 . Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation v. Chilton Club, 318 Mass. 285, 287 . Opinion of the Justices, 321 Mass. 759, 765 . … Muldoon v. Lowell, 178 Mass. 134 . Webb Granite & Construction Co. v. Worcester, 187 Mass. 385, 389 . Pope v. Berry, 223 Mass. 473, 475 . Adams v. Selectmen of Northbridge, 253 Mass. 408, 410 . Larkin v.

    Cited 26 timesPublished
  • Burns v. Thomas Cook & Sons, Inc.

    317 Mass. 398 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 8, 1944

    See Hall v. Vanier, 6 Neb. 85 ; Whitehead v. Gray, 7 Halst. 36; Ruckman v. Ransom, 6 Vroom, 565 ; Dodds v. Hakes, 114 N. Y. 260 ; Butler v. Mayor of New York, 7 Hill, 329 , 331; People v. … Board of Health of Fayette, 83 App. Div. (N. Y.) 571; Atlanta & Richmond Air Line Railroad v. Mangham, 49 Ga. 266 ; Wilkes v. Cotter, 28 Ark. 519 . See also Second Society of Universalists in Boston v. Royal Ins. Co.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Train v. Boston Disinfecting Co.

    144 Mass. 523 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 12, 1887

    Belcher v. Farrar, 8 Allen, 325 . Sawyer v. State Board of Health, 125 Mass. 182 . … Morgan's Steamship Co. v. Louisiana Board of Health, 118 U. S. 455 .

    Cited 49 timesPublished
  • Moore v. Cataldo

    356 Mass. 325 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 1, 1969

    Carson v. Board of Appeals of Lexington, supra, at 653. The plaintiffs’ reliance on Kane v. … Todd v. Board of Appeals of Yarmouth, 337 Mass. 162, 168 .

    Cited 16 timesPublished
  • District Attorney for the Northwestern District v. Eastern Hampshire Division of the District Court Department

    452 Mass. 199 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Aug 18, 2008

    The criminal prosecution at issue in Commonwealth v. Brown, 426 Mass. 475 (1998) (Brown), took place in the Boston Municipal Court. … See Mazzone v.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Gay v. Homer

    30 Mass. 535 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 15, 1833

    This point was settled in the case of Briggs v. Nantucket Bank, 5 Mass. R. 94 . … It alleges that the plaintiff was agent for the Boston and Providence Citizens Coach Company, and one Brown was the sub-agent; that suggestions had been made that Brown had not accounted for moneys received by him in that

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • In re a Request for an Investigation of an Attorney

    449 Mass. 1013 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 1, 2007

    Accord Callahan v. Board of Bar Overseers, 417 Mass. 516, 518 (1994); Slotnick v. Pike, 374 Mass. 822 (1977). The reasoning of Binns is instructive: “The board was established by this court in S.J.C. … See Whitley v. Commonwealth, [369 Mass.] 961 (1975).” Binns v. Board of Bar Overseers, supra.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Hildreth v. D. S. McDonald Co.

    164 Mass. 16 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 19, 1895

    Re Landreth, in Browne, Trademarks, § 89 d. Payson's Indelible Ink, in Browne, §§ 271, 272. Philadelphia Novelty Manuf. Co. v. Rouss, 40 Fed. Rep. 585. Philadelphia Novelty Manuf. Co. v. Blakesley Novelty Co. 40 Fed. … Fleischmann v. Starkey, 25 Fed. Rep. 127. Faber v. Faber, 49 Barb. 357 . In re Hanson's Trademark, 37 Ch. D. 112.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • City of Taunton v. Taylor

    116 Mass. 254 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 9, 1874

    Belcher v. … Winthrop v. Farrar, 11 Allen, 398 . Salem v. Eastern Railroad, 98 Mass. 431 . Watertown v. Mayo, 109 Mass. 315 .

    Cited 43 timesPublished

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