Case law

Commonwealth v. Holmes

157 Mass. 233 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 20, 1892

Commonwealth v. Goodwin, Commonwealth v. Bradford, Commonwealth v. Abbott, Commonwealth v. Ryan , and Commonwealth v. Quinn, ubi supra. … Commonwealth v. Brown, 14 Gray, 419 , 431. Exceptions overruled.

Wood v. Corcoran

83 Mass. 405 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 15, 1861

Stone v. Symmes, 18 Pick. 467 ; Curtis v. Brown, 5 Cush. 492 ; Goodman v. Chase, 1 B. & Ald. 297; Butcher v. Steuart, 11 M. & W. 857.

Brogna v. Capodilupo

279 Mass. 586 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 28, 1932

A painter of experience testified that in the year 1925 if a staging were .attached to a pitched roof boards should be used, that the custom of the trade for painters was to put a roof board from the pitch of the house down … Pettingill v. William Porter & Son, Inc. 219 Mass. 347, 349 . Favereau v. Gabele, 262 Mass. 118, 119 .

Moquin v. Kalicka

247 Mass. 476 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 25, 1924

There was evidence that Benjamin Kalicka within “ one half hour or forty-five minutes of the accident ” was seen “ delivering a package from this truck, which was done up apparently in brown wrapping paper.” … Trombley v. Stevens-Duryea Co. 206 Mass. 516 . Canavan v. Giblin, 232 Mass. 297 . Haskell v. Albiani, 245 Mass. 233 .

Kennie v. Natural Resource Department

451 Mass. 754 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 10, 2008

Hovnanian at Taunton, Inc. v. Taunton, 37 Mass. App. Ct. 639 , 646 & n.11 (1994) (K. Hovnanian), and Rosenfeld v. Board of Health of Chilmark, 27 Mass. App. Ct. 621, 626-627 (1989) (Rosenfeld). … Hovnanian at Taunton, Inc. v. Taunton, 37 Mass. App. Ct. 639, 647 (1994); Rosenfeld v. Board of Health of Chilmark, 27 Mass. App. Ct. 621, 627-628 (1989).

Quincy Trust Co. v. Town of Pembroke

346 Mass. 730 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 30, 1964

Claycraft Co. v. John Bowen Co. 287 Mass. 255, 257 . … Dyer v. Homer, 22 Pick. 253 , 261. Buttrick Lumber Co. v. Collins, 202 Mass. 413, 418 . Harrison Mfg. Co. Inc. v. Philip Rothman & Son, Inc. 336 Mass. 625, 628 . See G. L. c. 231, § 5.

Commonwealth v. Reading Savings Bank

129 Mass. 73 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 30, 1880

The case of Dedham Bank v. Chickering, 3 Pick. 335 , is very much in point. … See also Chelmsford Co. v. Demarest, 7 Gray, 1 ; Amherst Bank v. Root, 2 Met. 523 ; Cambridge v. Fifield, 126 Mass. 428 .

Ware v. City of Fitchburg

200 Mass. 61 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 21, 1908

Stone v. Charlestown, 114 Mass. 214, 224, 228 . Commonwealth v. Plaisted, 148 Mass. 375, 383 , et seq. Kingman, petitioner, 153 Mass. 566, 572 . Prince v. Crocker, 166 Mass. 347 . Hodgdon v. … Smith v. Wescott, 13 L. R. A. 217. Philadelphia v. Fox, 64 Penn. St. 169. And see Allen v. Macy, 109 Ind. 559 ; McGurn v. Board of Education of Chicago, 133 Ill. 122 .

Farnum v. Pitcher

151 Mass. 470 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 10, 1890

Carter v. Goff, 141 Mass. 123 . … Whithead v. Keyes, 3 Allen, 495 . Burghardt v. Van Deusen, 4 Allen, 374 . Merrill v. Nary, 10 Allen, 416 . Kline v. Baker, 99 Mass. 253 . Ely v. James, 123 Mass. 36 .

Town of Lexington v. Govenar

295 Mass. 31 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 30, 1936

or board of •survey or other like authority.” … Inc. v. Department of Public Works, 289 Mass. 149, 184 , et seq.; Ware v. Wichita, 113 Kans. 153, 159, 160 ; State v. New Orleans, 154 La. 271, 284 ; State v. Harper, 182 Wis. 148, 157, 159 .

Sheehan v. Commissioner of Civil Service

293 Mass. 44 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 30, 1935

McCabe v. Judge of the District Court, 277 Mass. 55 . … Hayes v. Hurley, 292 Mass. 109 . Exceptions overruled.

Nigro v. Jones

332 Mass. 741 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 29, 1955

We do not know whether or not under the Winthrop by-laws the board of appeals had authority to hear appeals from the granting of a permit by the building inspector. … Boyle v. Building Inspector of Malden, 327 Mass. 564, 566-567 . Old Colony Trust Co. v. Merchant Enterprises, Inc., ante, 484, 488. Compare Sunderland v. Building Inspector of North Andover, 328 Mass. 638, 641 .

Darcey v. Lord & Burnham Co.

320 Mass. 371 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 4, 1946

Elder took down the board last referred to and *373 worked in the hole until 4 p.m., and that Elder then put back that board, but left the cover off. … In Runnells v.

Killion v. Kelley

120 Mass. 47 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 2, 1876

O'Linda v. Lothrop, 21 Pick. 292 . Tufts *52 v. Charlestown, 2 Gray, 271 . Gaw v. Hughes, 111 Mass. 296 . … Thomas v. Poole, 7 Gray, 83 . Brown v. Stone, 10 Gray, 61 . Richardson v. Pond, 15 Gray, 387 . Meehan v. Barry, 97 Mass. 447 .

Hershenow v. Enterprise Rent-A-Car Co.

445 Mass. 790 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 17, 2006

Bronstein v. Prudential Ins. Co., 390 Mass. 701, 704 (1984). I write separately because the court fails to overrule expressly the contrary holding of Leardi v. Brown, 394 Mass. 151, 152 (1985) (Leardi). … The Leardi decision itself acknowledged that § 9 did not authorize “vicarious suits by self-constituted private attomeys-general,” Leardi v. Brown, supra at 161 , quoting Baldassari v. Public Fin.

Jenkins v. Wood

134 Mass. 115 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 9, 1883

Troy National Bank v. Stanton, 116 Mass. 435 . Thompson v. Brown, 16 Mass. 172 . Holden v. Fletcher, 6 Cush. 235 .

Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation v. City of Cambridge

321 Mass. 44 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 13, 1947

It was decided in Peterson v. Hopson, 306 Mass. 597 , that this company was a trust. … The amounts found by the board must be paid to the city, together with costs. So ordered.

Doe v. City of Lynn

472 Mass. 521 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Aug 28, 2015

The board 14 Constitutional peril is demonstrated through several cases challenging the constitutionality of the sex offender statutes. See, e.g., Commonwealth v. … Doe v.

Quebec's Case

247 Mass. 80 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 28, 1923

Arthur V. … In Western Metal Supply Co. v.

Town of Nantucket v. Beinecke

379 Mass. 345 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 12, 1979

Obviously, in a town where the board of selectmen have been appointed as agents to bring suits on behalf of the town, their knowledge would be sufficient to charge the town. See G. L. c. 40, § 2; Great Barrington v. … While the judge’s focus on knowledge by the board of selectmen was entirely appropriate, the use of judicial notice with respect to the manner in which the board necessarily acquired such knowledge was erroneous.