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  • Assessors of Brookline v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

    310 Mass. 300 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 25, 1941

    of tax appeals [now the Appellate Tax Board] should have been dismissed by the board.” … Co. v.

    Cited 27 timesPublished
  • Gordon v. Robinson Homes, Inc.

    342 Mass. 529 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 2, 1961

    See Stoneham v. … Compare Metropolitan Pipe & Supply Co. v. D’Amore Constr. Co. 309 Mass. 380 ; Philip Carey Mfg. Co. v. Peerless Cas. Co. 330 Mass. 319, 321-322 .

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Beckles's Case

    230 Mass. 272 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 24, 1918

    Aside from the exclusion by the Industrial Accident Board of certain evidence offered by the claimant, the question presented is, whether the finding of the board that the injury was not due to the serious and wilful misconduct … Freeman v. United Fruit Co. 223 Mass. 300, 302 . Burns’s Case, supra, and cases cited. Nickerson’s Case, 218 Mass. 158, 160 . Johnson v. Marshall Sons & Co. Ltd. [1906] A. C. 409, 411.

    Cited 22 timesPublished
  • Garrity v. City of Boston

    161 Mass. 530 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 21, 1894

    Callender v. Marsh, 1 Pick. 418 . Brown v. Lowell, 8 Met. 172 . Mitchell v. Bridgewater, 10 Cush. 411 . Burr v. Leicester, 121 Mass. 241 . See also Sisson v. … Callender v. Marsh, ubi supra. To meet this view of the law, which was deemed to be an injustice, the section of the Revised Statutes above referred to was enacted. Brown v. Lowell, ubi supra.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Forte Investment Fund v. State Tax Commission

    369 Mass. 786 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 1, 1976

    McDonald v. Commissioner, 323 U.S. 57, 61 (1944). … In Wheatland v.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Perez v. Boston Housing Authority

    379 Mass. 703 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 4, 1980

    See Amherst-Pelham Regional School Comm. v. Department of Educ., 376 Mass. 480, 494-495 (1978); Board of Health of N. Adams v. *730 Mayor of N. Adams, 368 Mass. 554, 564-568 (1975). … A procedure is provided by statute for the re *739 moval of Board members from office on charges as therein defined. See G. L. c. 121B, § 6; Belinfante v. Mayor of Revere, 352 Mass. 712 (1967); Bunte v.

    Cited 63 timesPublished
  • Maguire v. Pan-American Amusement Co.

    205 Mass. 64 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 23, 1910

    Swift v. Barnes, 16 Pick. 194 . Leighton v. Brown, 98 Mass. 515 . … Swift v. Barnes, 16 Pick. 194 . Leighton v. Brown, 98 Mass. 515 . Stevens v. Tuite, 104 Mass. 328 . The damages should be assessed upon this basis. 4.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Colonial Press, Inc. v. Ellis

    321 Mass. 495 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 26, 1947

    Reynolds v. Davis, 198 Mass. 294 . Folsom v. Lewis, 208 Mass. 336 . Baush Machine Tool Co. v. Hill, 231 Mass. 30 . Folsom Engraving Co. v. McNeil, 235 Mass. 269 . A. T. Stearns Lumber Co. v. … See Allen-Bradley Local No. 1111, United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Board, 315 U. S. 740 .

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • Wall v. Registrar of Motor Vehicles

    329 Mass. 70 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 29, 1952

    Marshall v. Registrar of Motor Vehicles, 324 Mass. 468, 469 . The return, instead of being in the form of an answer, should have stated the proceedings of which review is sought. Byfield v. Newton, 247 Mass. 46, 52 . … Byfield v. Newton, supra, at page 53. By G. L. (Ter.

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Senior

    454 Mass. 12 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 28, 2009

    We have adopted the guidelines established by the Appeals Court in Commonwealth v. Brown, 11 Mass. App. … Commonwealth v. Disler, 451 Mass. 216, 222 (2008), quoting Commonwealth v. Brown, 431 Mass. 772, 775 (2000). By its language, G.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Chandler v. City of Lawrence

    128 Mass. 213 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 21, 1880

    Brackett v. Blake, 7 Met. 835 , 339. Knowles v. Boston, 12 Gray, 339 . … Bennett v. New Bedford, 110 Mass. 433 . Holt v. City Council of Somerville, 127 Mass. 408 . Judgment affirmed.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Brielman v. Commissioner of Public Health

    301 Mass. 407 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 29, 1938

    This power is not subject to the limitations of earlier rule making powers of boards of health, illustrated by Commonwealth v. Drew, 208 Mass, 493. … Commonwealth v. Wheeler, 205 Mass. 384 . Decree affirmed with costs.

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Jordan Marsh Co. v. Labor Relations Commission

    312 Mass. 597 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 29, 1942

    American Federation of Labor v. National Labor Relations Board, 308 U. S. 401 . National Labor Relations Board v. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, 308 U. S. 413 . National Labor Relations Board v. … Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. v. National Labor Relations Board, 313 U. S. 146, 152, 154 . United Employees Association v. National Labor Relations Board, 96 Fed. (2d) 875. Southern Steamship Co. v.

    Cited 31 timesPublished
  • Commissioner of Revenue v. Pat's Super Market, Inc.

    387 Mass. 309 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Aug 31, 1982

    Since the remedy of abatement is created by statute, the board has only that jurisdiction conferred on it by statute, Stilson v. Assessors of Gloucester, 385 Mass. 724, 732 (1982). … The board “has no jurisdiction to entertain proceedings for relief by abatement begun at a later time or prosecuted in a different manner than is prescribed by the statute.” Assessors of Boston v.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Mayor of Holyoke v. Chief of Police of Holyoke

    328 Mass. 253 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 8, 1952

    See Quinlan v. Cambridge, 320 Mass. 124 . … Selectmen of Milton v. Justice of the Dis t rict Court of East Norfolk, 286 Mass. 1, 4-6 . Openshaw v. Fall River, 287 Mass. 426, 432 . Whalen v.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Flint v. Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation

    312 Mass. 204 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 9, 1942

    In the recent case of Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation v. Filoon, 310 Mass. 374 — decided after the decision by the Appellate Tax Board in the present case — G. L. (Ter. … See *209 Smith v. Cotting, 231 Mass. 42, 48 ; Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation v. Filoon, 310 Mass. 374, 391 .

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Berninger's Case

    253 Mass. 52 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 28, 1925

    board.” … Newburyport Institution for Savings v. Coffin, 189 Mass. 74 . Walters v. Jackson & Newton Co. 231 Mass. 247 .

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • RCN-BecoCom, LLC v. Commissioner of Revenue

    443 Mass. 198 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 6, 2005

    Relying on Commissioner of Revenue v. … Partnership v. Assessors of Danvers, 429 Mass. 126 (1999); Warner Amex Cable Communications, Inc. v. Assessors of Everett, 396 Mass. 239 (1985); Assessors of Springfield v.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Blosck's Case

    277 Mass. 451 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 3, 1931

    Clark v. Beacon Oil Co. 271 Mass. 27, 29-30 . Cooper's Case, 271 Mass. 38, 40 . The hospital record was also evidence of the treatment and medical history of the employee. G. L. c. 233, § 79. Leonard v. … Bilodeau v. Fitchburg & Leominster Street Railway, 236 Mass. 526, 540 .

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Tapper v. Boston Chamber of Commerce

    235 Mass. 209 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 28, 1920

    the board. … In the absence of a forbidding statute, a Massachusetts corporation may purchase its own stock, Leonard v.

    Cited 5 timesPublished

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