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  • Donovan's Case

    217 Mass. 76 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 27, 1914

    This must be decided upon the facts found by the Industrial Accident Board in its review of the report of the committee of arbitration. … See Davies v. Rhymney Iron Co. 16 T. L. R. 329; Holmes v. Great Northern Railway, [1900] 2 Q. B. 409; Whitbread v. Arnold, 99 L. T. 103; Cremins v. Guest, Keen & Nettlefolds, [1908] 1 K. B. 469; Gane v.

    Cited 94 timesPublished
  • Bushell v. Mayor of Malden

    260 Mass. 476 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 1, 1927

    Mayor of Somerville v. Justices of the Police Court of Somerville, 220 Mass. 393, 396 , and cases there cited. Rich v. Mayor of Malden, 252 Mass. 213, 217 . … Daly v. Mayor of Medford, 241 Mass. 336, 339 , and cases there collected. Exceptions sustained.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Downing v. Cunningham

    256 Mass. 285 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 2, 1926

    Haskell v. Merrill, 179 Mass. 120 . The history of the “Ponzi fraud” in 1919 and 1920 has been set forth sufficiently in previous decisions and need not be repeated here. See Cunningham v. Brown, 265 U. … A like rule is found in Knatchbull v. Hallett, L. R. 13 Ch. D. 696, of which as applied to the “Ponzi fraud” the court in Cunningham v. Brown, 265 U.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Donlan's Case

    317 Mass. 291 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 30, 1944

    There was nothing to prevent the board from believing the evidence just recited. … Wiemert v. Boston Elevated Railway, 216 Mass. 598 . Brightman’s Case, 220 Mass. 17, 20 . Fisher’s Case, 220 Mass. 581 . Madden’s Case, 222 Mass. 487 . Colantueno’s Case, 275 Mass. 1, 3-4 . Griffin’s Case, 315 Mass. 71 .

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • MacUrdy v. Carver

    328 Mass. 434 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 28, 1952

    Keefe v. Fairfield, 184 Mass. 334 . Smith v. Greene, 197 Mass. 16 . King v. Milliken, 248 Mass. 460, 463 . Chertok v. Kassabian, 255 Mass. 265 . Beck v. Doore, 319 Mass. 707, 710 . Devore v. Good, 321 Mass. 84, 86 . … New York Central Railroad v. Stoneham, 233 Mass. 258, 262 . Koshland v. Columbia Ins. Co. 237 Mass. 467, 471-472 .

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Allen v. Town of Plymouth

    313 Mass. 356 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 4, 1943

    local board involved and had to be complied with by it. … See Hinckley v. Barnstable, 311 Mass. 600, 605 . Compare Hawkes v. Lackey, 207 Mass. 424, 432, 433 . Under the old age assistance law, the action of the local board was not necessarily final.

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Koleshinski v. David

    328 Mass. 276 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 9, 1952

    The plaintiff in leaving his home on March 3, 1947, stepped on a board which broke off four or five inches from the front end and the rest of the board was split. The jury could find that Dr. … Feeley v. Doyle, 222 Mass. 155 . Cleary v. Union Realty Co. 300 Mass. 312, 313 . Diamond v. Simcovitz, 310 Mass. 150, 153 . Blood v. Dewey, 318 Mass. 79, 84 .

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Hachadourian's Case

    340 Mass. 81 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 11, 1959

    findings could have been made by the board. … [V¡ doctor was medically sound.” “A decision upon the question of causation was one of fact, resting entirely upon medical knowledge and within the province of the board to determine.

    Cited 51 timesPublished
  • Joos's Case

    267 Mass. 322 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 29, 1929

    See Osborne’s Case, 257 Mass. 532 ; When the board passed the order for the lump sum payment the employee was a minor and under the statute the board could act without his consent; but it could not act without a hearing and … Commonwealth v. Hollis, 170 Mass. 433, 435 . See Osborne’s Case, supra. The board was justified in its findings that the employee sustained a permanently disabling injury and that his earning capacity was $10 a week.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Stewart v. Thayer

    168 Mass. 519 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 24, 1897

    Miner v. Bradley, 22 Pick. 457 ,459. Clark v. Baker, 5 Met. 452 . Morse v. Brackett, 98 Mass. 205 . Mansfield v. Trigg, 113 Mass. 350, 353 . Handy v. St. Paul Globe Pub. Co. 41 Minn. 188 . McClanathan v. … Hazard v. Day, 14 Allen, 487 . Myers v. Meinrath, 101 Mass. 366 . Such a contract is absolutely void and cannot be ratified. Day v. McAllister, 15 Gray, 433 . Stevens v. Wood, 127 Mass. 123 .

    Cited 17 timesPublished
  • Barclay v. DeVeau

    384 Mass. 676 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 10, 1981

    See Beaver Lake Ass’n v. … See Baron v. Fontes, 311 Mass. 473, 477 (1942). 6 The third member of the existing board, previously elected by the unit owners, was to remain in office.

    Cited 45 timesPublished
  • BOSTON ASS'N OF SCH. ADM'RS & SUP. v. Boston Ret. Bd.

    383 Mass. 336 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 8, 1981

    See Averell v. Newburyport, 241 Mass. 333, 335 (1922); Attorney Gen. v. Woburn, 317 Mass. 465, 467-468 (1945); Quinlan v. Cambridge, 320 Mass. 124 (1946); Fitchburg Teachers Ass'n v. … v.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Holcombe v. Creamer

    231 Mass. 99 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 18, 1918

    Cambridge Board of Health, 200 Mass. 474,478 . O’Keeffe v. Somerville, 190 Mass. 110 . Gleason v. McKay, 134 Mass. 419 . Opinion of the Justices, 208 Mass. 619, 622 . Bogni v. Perotti, 224 Mass. 152 . … Nelson v. State Board of Health, 186 Mass. 330 . Binan v. Swig, 223 Mass. 516, 520 . It follows that the statute does not violate art. 30 of the Declaration of Rights. Boston v. Chelsea, 212 Mass. 127 .

    Cited 38 timesPublished
  • Cater v. Bednarek

    462 Mass. 523 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 15, 2012

    Parlante v. Brooks, 363 Mass. 879, 880 (1973), citing Sindler v. William M. Bailey Co., 348 Mass. 589, 592 (1965). … Desotell v. Szczygiel, 338 Mass. 153, 159 (1958). See Willets v. Langhaar, 212 Mass. 573, 575 (1912).

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Powers's Case

    275 Mass. 515 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 1, 1931

    Penn v. Spiers & Pond, Ltd. [1908] 1 K. B. 766. Great Northern Railway v. Dawson, [1905] 1 K. B. 331. Knott v. Tingle Jacobs & Co. 4 B. W. C. C. 55. See Skailes v. Blue Anchor Line, Ltd. [1911] 1 K. … Presumably that decision has been followed in the subsequent years by the board in the absence of any adjudication by this court. It was said by Chief Justice Hughes in Louisville & Nashville Railroad v.

    Cited 36 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Walters

    Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 12, 2018

    He also argues that his sentence was illegal because the resentencing judge did not properly apply our holding in Brown v. … Ct. 31, 34- 35 (2002) (Brown and Manning v. Superintendent, Mass.

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  • Kennedy v. Drake

    225 Mass. 303 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 1, 1916

    Pond v. Williams, 1 Gray, 630 . Roscoe v. Hale, 7 Gray, 274 . Ramsay v. Warner, 97 Mass. 8, 13, 14 . … Pond v. Williams, 1 Gray, 630 at page 635, and cases cited. Ramsay v. Warner, ubi supra. Haynes v. Nice, 100 Mass. 327 . Haskell v. Manson, 200 Mass. 599 . Blake v. Sawyer, 83 Maine, 129.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Louis's Case

    424 Mass. 136 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 15, 1997

    Young v. Duncan, 218 Mass. 346, 349 (1914). … The board was faced with this issue once as an ancillary issue in Hunnicutt v. General Dynamics, 5 Mass. Workers’ Comp.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Manchester v. Selectmen of Nantucket

    335 Mass. 156 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 7, 1956

    Kenworthy & Taylor, Inc. v. State Examiners of Electricians, 320 Mass. 451 . … Peckham v. Mayor of Fall River, 253 Mass. 590, 592 . Compare Massachusetts Society of Graduate Physical Therapists, Inc. v. Board of Registration in Medicine, 330 Mass. 601, 605-606 .

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Thwing v. Great Western Insurance

    103 Mass. 401 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 15, 1869

    Hooe v. Groverman, 1 Cranch, 214, 236, 237 . Ashburner v. Balchen, 3 Selden, 262. Cuthbert v. Cumming, 10 Exch. 809, 814. … Wolcott v. Eagle Insurance Co. above cited. Paddock v. Franklin Insurance Co. 11 Pick. 227 , 230. Hill v. Patten, 8 East, 373, 375.

    Cited 3 timesPublished

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