Case law

Proprietors of the Looks and Canals on Merrimack River v. Commonwealth

341 Mass. 631 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 9, 1961

See Edmands v. Boston, 108 Mass. 535, 547 ; Cornell-Andrews Smelting Co. v. Boston & Providence B.B. 209 Mass. *636 298, 313-314; Newman v. Commonwealth, 336 Mass. 444, 446 . The Southeast Pabcel. … Adams v. Boland, 155 Mass. 171 . Institution for Sav. in Roxbury v. Roxbury Home for Aged Women, 244 Mass. 583 . Brown v. Independent Bap *639 tist Church of Woburn, 325 Mass. 645 .

City of Revere v. Blaustein

320 Mass. 81 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 1, 1946

The proof of this regulation is amply supported by the testimony elicited in the cross-examination of the chairman of the board. Ryder v. Board of Health of Lexington, 273 Mass. 177, 179 . Commonwealth v. … Taunton v. Taylor, 116 Mass. 254 . The dismissal of that appeal precluded the defendant from showing in this suit that his business was not a nuisance or that the board was not acting in good faith. Swansea v.

Hanley v. Cook

245 Mass. 563 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 6, 1923

General Baking Co. v. Street Commissioners, 242 Mass. 194 . See Lowell v. … Quinn v. Middlesex Electric Light Co. 140 Mass. 109 . Foss v. Wexler, 242 Mass. 277 .

Commonwealth v. Nettis

418 Mass. 715 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 6, 1994

Our decision in Brown , however, is not instructive in the present case because the jury never unanimously affirmed the verdict in public. Commonwealth v. Brown, supra at 28 . … United States v. Shepherd, 576 F.2d 719, 724 (7th Cir.), cert, denied, 439 U.S. 852 (1978). See Audette v.

Cook v. City of Springfield

184 Mass. 247 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 20, 1903

Chase v. Lowell, 7 Gray, 33 . See in addition to Walker v. Cook, 129 Mass. 577 , Sikes v. Hatfield, 13 Gray, 347; Farnsworth v. Melrose, 122 Mass. 268 . … Walker v. Cook, 129 Mass. 577, 579 .

Assessors of Boston v. Neal

311 Mass. 192 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 30, 1942

Miner v. Pingree, 110 Mass. 47 . Dunham v. Lowell, 200 Mass. 468 . … Compare Sanborn v. Flagler, 9 Allen, 474 , 477-478; McGovern v. Hern, 153 Mass. 308, 310 ; Tobin v. Larkin, 183 Mass. 389, 391 ; Merrill v. Paige, 229 Mass. 511, 514 ; Lowell v.

Geoffrey, Inc. v. Commissioner of Revenue

453 Mass. 17 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 8, 2009

Bank v. Commissioner of Revenue, 387 Mass. 229,235 (1982). While we give deference to the board’s expertise in interpreting the tax laws of the Commonwealth, see French v. … See Geoffrey, Inc. v.

Sharon v. Director of the Division of Employment Security

390 Mass. 376 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 9, 1983

Application of law to fact is a function specifically committed to the board. Garfield v. Director of the Div. of Employment Sec., 377 Mass. 94, 96 (1979). … Garfield v. Director of the Div. of Employment Sec., supra at 97.

Centracchio

345 Mass. 342 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 16, 1963

Forziati v. Board of Registration in Medicine, 333 Mass. 125, 128 . … His relationship with one of the doctors, typical of his dealings with them all, deserved the severe condemnation recorded in Forziati v. Board of Registration in Medicine, 333 Mass. 125 .

Graham v. Quincy Food Service Employees Ass'n & Hospital, Library & Public Employees Union

407 Mass. 601 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 12, 1990

In Baker v. Board of Educ. of West Irondequoit Cent. School Dist., 70 N.Y.2d 314 (1987), the New York Court of Appeals rejected the DelCostello rule as inapplicable to actions arising under the New York statute. … See Brown v. Quinn, 406 Mass. 641, 645-646 (1990).

Brightman's Case

220 Mass. 17 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 31, 1914

And the procedure also differs from that on findings and decision of the Industrial Accident Board. Stickley’s Case, 219 Mass. 513 . … Wiemert v. Boston Elevated Railway, 216 Mass. 598 . Clover, Clayton & Co. Ltd. v. Hughes, [1910] A. C. 242. The finding of the Industrial.

Kennedy v. City of Holyoke

312 Mass. 248 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 27, 1942

The present c. 31, § 43, differs from the statute in force when the cases of Tucker v. Boston, 223 Mass. 478 , Thomas v. Municipal Council of Lowell, 227 Mass. 116 , and Ellis v. … See Chartrand v. Chartrand, 295 Mass. 293, 297 .

Assessors of Everett v. General Electric Co.

330 Mass. 464 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 29, 1953

Apparently, this was the reason that the board made no findings concerning any such action. We do not intimate that, if there was such an action, it would bar the granting of relief by the board. See Radway v. … The Appellate Tax Board was empowered to grant the abatement. Milford Water Co. v. Hopkinton, 192 Mass. 491, 497-498 . Welch v. Boston, 211 Mass. 178, 186 . Assessors of Boston v.

Posner v. Seder

184 Mass. 331 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 23, 1903

Brown v. Woodbury, 183 Mass. 279 . In this case the. plaintiff has sued upon a quantum meruit for the value of only a part of the services, namely, for those rendered in the extra hours named in the contract. … Brown v. Woodbury, ubi supra. Exceptions sustained.

Kalleck v. Deering

169 Mass. 200 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 2, 1897

Osborne v. Morgan, 130 Mass. 102 ; S. C. 137 Mass. 1 . The plaintiff was therefore entitled to go to the jury as against this defendant. … Twomey v. Swift, 163 Mass. 273 . Exceptions sustained.

McMahon's Case

229 Mass. 48 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 2, 1918

We cannot consider in this connection the payment of board by the decedent nor the purchase by him of various articles of clothing and fruit and his gifts of money for car fares, because the board has found that these were … “Dependents” are defined in Part V, § 2, of the statute as “members of the employee’s family or next of kin who were wholly or partly dependent upon the earnings of the employee for support at the time of the injury.”

Tileston v. Street Commissioners

182 Mass. 325 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 25, 1902

the board do not state *327 the facts. … Mendon v. County Commissioners, 2 Allen, 463 , 466. See Ward v. Aldermen of Newton, 181 Mass. 432 . No such motion having been made, the petition properly was dismissed.

Commonwealth v. Grace

397 Mass. 303 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 15, 1986

See Commonwealth v. Brown, supra at 171-172 ; Commonwealth v. Grace, 370 Mass, at 753-754; Nicholas v. Lewis Furniture Co., 292 Mass. 500, 505-506 (1935). Cf. Commonwealth v. … See Commonwealth v. Brown, 378 Mass. 165, 170-171 (1979); DeLuca v. Boston Elevated Ry., supra at 497; Davis v. Boston Elevated Ry., supra at 497.

Cook v. Johnson

165 Mass. 245 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 26, 1896

Kelleran v. Brown, 4 Mass. 443 . Flint v. Sheldon, 13 Mass. 443 . Bodwell v. Webster, 13 Pick. 411 . Flagg v. Mann, 14 *247 Pick. 467 . Eaton v. Green, 22 Pick. 526 . Clarke v. Sibley, 13 Met. 210 . French v. … Brown , and Eaton v. Green, ubi supra. Campbell v. Dearborn, 109 Mass. 130 . Pond v. Eddy, 113 Mass. 149 . Hassam v. Barrett, 115 Mass. 256 . Cullen v. Carey, 146 Mass. 50 .

Howe v. Nickerson

96 Mass. 400 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 15, 1867

Rochambeau, 26 Law Reporter, 564 , in which a seaman, who had shipped in New Brunswick on a voyage to England and back to a port in the United States, on wages of “twenty-five dollars per month,” and continued to serve on board … C. 1 Brownl. 90; Brown v. Barry, 3 Dall. 365 ; The Nonpareil, 1 Brown. & Lush. 355.