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  • Lyttle v. Monto

    248 Mass. 340 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 5, 1924

    The boy thereupon jumped upon the running board, grasping a post or upright, and Monto started down the driveway driving slowly. … West v. Poor, 196 Mass. 183 . Flynn v. Lewis, 231 Mass. 550 .

    Cited 59 timesPublished
  • New York Central Railroad v. Department of Public Works

    354 Mass. 332 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 9, 1968

    Commn. 335 Mass. 372, 374-375 (no right of any kind to access to the abutting way), and in Natick Trust Co. v. Board of Bank Incorporation, 337 Mass. 615, 616-617 , and City Bank & Trust Co. v. … Pendergast v. Board of Appeals of Barnstable, 331 Mass. 555, 558 .

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Lazarz's Case

    293 Mass. 538 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 25, 1936

    The board were not required to believe this testimony, and there is nothing to show that they did so. … See also Kasper v. H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc. 291 Mass. 24 . Decree reversed. Decree for insurer.

    Cited 23 timesPublished
  • Stearns v. Blevins

    262 Mass. 577 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 2, 1928

    Brown v. Cushman, 173 Mass. 368, 371 . Stewart v. Loring, 5 Allen, 306 . Freeman v. Freeman, 136 Mass. 260 . Barrett v. Towne, 196 Mass. 487, 489 . Browne v. Fairhall, 213 Mass. 290 . … McClean v. Kennard, L. R. 9 Ch. App. 336. In Jepson v.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Millmore v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

    198 Mass. 370 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 4, 1908

    In Baldwin v. … See also, as bearing generally upon the subject, Brown v. Cummings, 7 Allen, 507 , and cases therein cited; 1 Chit, on Pl. (16th Am. ed.) 411, 412, and authorities cited in the notes; Prentiss v.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Sandler v. Boston Automatic Fire Alarm Co.

    303 Mass. 586 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 20, 1939

    The regulations of the national board were relevant on the issue of what rules, if any, the Boston board had, and they constituted “a link in the chain of *591 proof.” Commonwealth v. Abbott, 130 Mass. 472, 473 . … See Libby, McNeill & Libby v. Illinois District Telegraph Co. 294 Ill. App. 93, 108, 109 . Compare Gates v. Boston & Maine Railroad, 255 Mass. 297, 301 ; Walker v. Benz Kid Co. 279 Mass. 533, 537 .

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Kane

    362 Mass. 656 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 1, 1972

    D. tablets, which would be carried in a brown leather suitcase.” The informant also described some of the clothing Kane would be wearing. … See Commonwealth v. Chaisson, 358 Mass. 587 ; Commonwealth v. Cohen, 359 Mass. 140 ; United States v. Newsome, 432 F. 2d 51 , 53 (5th Cir.); Buelna-Mendoza v.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Frostburg Mining Co. v. New England Glass Co.

    63 Mass. 115 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 15, 1851

    In Morton v. … So, also, in Bushel & others v. Wheeler, which is reported in connection with Morton v. Tibbett, the vendee ordered the goods to be forwarded by a particular sloop.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Ames v. Jackson

    115 Mass. 508 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 4, 1874

    Thompson v. Brown, 16 Mass. 172 . Heath v. Wells, 5 Pick. 140 . Lamson v. Schutt, 4 Allen, 359 . Tarbell v. Packer, 106 Mass. 347 . … Cahill v. Bigelow, 18 Pick. 369 . Browne on St. Frauds, §§ 128,130, 135.

    Cited 19 timesPublished
  • Fifty Associates v. City of Boston

    201 Mass. 585 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 18, 1909

    The decision was made without discussion, on the authority of Brown v. Providence, Warren & Bristol Railroad, 5 Gray, 35 . The decision in Brown v. … It is apparent that the court in *593 Brown v.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Langlois v. Langlois

    326 Mass. 85 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 5, 1950

    Browne v. Cogswell, 5 Allen, 556 , 557. Mixter v. Woodcock, 147 Mass. 613 . Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Buffum, 186 Mass. 242, 243 . … Browne v. Cogswell, 5 Allen, 556 , 557. Cases are to be distinguished where the testator used words allowing the consumption of the principal. Kent v.

    Cited 18 timesPublished
  • Rotkiewicz v. Sadowsky

    431 Mass. 748 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 20, 2000

    The defendant attended a number of meetings of the Deerfield board *750 of selectmen (board) to express his views on the plaintiff’s appointment. … After he received the board’s letter, the defendant continued to attend board meetings wearing his jacket with the bull’s-eye, and he wore the jacket around the town of Deerfield.

    Cited 61 timesPublished
  • Gold v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

    244 Mass. 144 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 28, 1923

    Butterick Publishing Co. v. Fisher, 203 Mass. 122, 133 . Spevack v. Budish, 238 Mass. 215, 217 , and cases collected. Muse v. De Vito, 243 Mass. 384 . … Brown v. Cambridge, 3 Allen, 474 . Purchase v. Seelye, 231 Mass. 434, 436 . Cormier v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway, 234 Mass. 193 . Exceptions overruled.

    Cited 22 timesPublished
  • Dudley v. Keith

    153 Mass. 104 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 12, 1891

    Kidder v. Browne, 9 Cush. 400 . … In the opinion in Kidder v. Browne , Shaw, C.

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • Quinn v. Mayor of Springfield

    233 Mass. 595 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 10, 1919

    The board of aider-men were authorized to deal with the whole improvement as a unit and to charge those assessed with a share of the total expense. Yeamans v. County Commissioners, 16 Gray, 36 . Upham v. … Alden v. Springfield, 121 Mass. 27 . Lincoln v. Street Commissioners, 176 Mass. 210 . Sears v. Street Commissioners, 180 Mass. 274 . Smith v. Mayor & Aldermen of Worcester, 182 Mass. 232, 234 . The case of Arnold v.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Dembinski's Case

    231 Mass. 261 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 25, 1918

    The single member of the Industrial Accident Board and the full board on review found that the actual cash contribution turned over each week to the father and mother by the deceased was $9.89, and that partial dependency … Under such circumstances the father was entitled to the wages of the son and was obliged to furnish him reasonable support, including board and clothes. Tornroos v. Autocar Co. 220 Mass. 336, 341 .

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Perlstein v. American Express Co.

    52 L.R.A. 959 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 25, 1901

    Reynolds v. Hanrahan, 100 Mass. 313 . Young v. South Boston Ice Co. 150 Mass. 527 . Randolph v. O’ Riordan, 155 Mass. 381 . … Howe v. Newmarch, 12 Allen, 49 . Bowler v. O’Connell, 162 Mass. 319 . Brown v. Jarvis Engineering Co. 166 Mass. 75 . Driscoll v. Scanlon, 165 Mass. 348 . Bard v. Yohn, 26 Penn: St. 482. Storey v. Ashton, L. R. 4 Q.

    Cited 27 timesPublished
  • Borofsky's Case

    411 Mass. 379 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 10, 1991

    Co. v. … Accordingly, the decision of the reviewing board of the Department of Industrial Accidents is affirmed. So ordered.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Trustees of the Public Library v. City of Melrose

    316 Mass. 584 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 27, 1944

    Fellows v. Miner, 119 Mass. 541, 546 . … Cary Library v. Bliss, 151 Mass. 364 . See also Attorney General v. Parker, 126 Mass. 216, 220 ; Boston v. Doyle, 184 Mass. 373, 381, 382 ; Adams v. Plunkett, 274 Mass. 453, 459, 460 .

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Pederzoli's Case

    269 Mass. 550 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 2, 1930

    All the material evidence received at the hearing on the employee’s petition for compensation, which was before a member of the Industrial Accident Board, and on review before the Industrial Accident Board, is reported. … See in this connection Kennerson v. Thames Towboat Co. 89 Conn. 367 ; Grinnell v. Wilkinson, 39 R. I. 447; Crane v. Leonard, Crossette & Riley, 214 Mich. 218 ; Post v. Burger & Gohlke, 216 N. Y. 544 . Decree affirmed.

    Cited 14 timesPublished

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