Case law

Fisher v. Drew

247 Mass. 178 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 2, 1924

This case involves the contractual right of a father to recover from the husband of his adult daughter *180 payment for her board and laundry, where the father was ignorant of the marriage at the time the services were rendered … There is a presumption that board furnished to a daughter by her father is gratuitous and ordinarily no implied promise arises to pay therefor. Mulhern v. McDavitt, 16 Gray, 404 . Livingston v. Hammond, 162 Mass. 375 .

Finlay v. City of Boston

196 Mass. 267 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 14, 1907

O'Connell v. Matthews, 177 Mass. 518 . Perry v. Hull, 180 Mass. 547 . Selectmen of Gardner v. Templeton Street Railway, 184 Mass. 294 . Fowler v. … See in this connection State v. Board of Education, 35 Vroom, 59 ; Ellison v. Raleigh, 89 N. C. 125, 130 ; State v. Board of Supervisors, 29 Wis. 79 . Petition dismissed.

Assessors of Boston v. Jakes

341 Mass. 136 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 3, 1960

Ewer v. Hobbs, 5 Met. 1 , 3. Derby v. Derby, 252 Mass. 176, 178. Boston v. Quincy Mkt. Gold Storage Co. 312 Mass. 638, 648-649 . Guleserian v. Pilgrim Trust Co. 331 Mass. 431, 434 . … Ewer v. Hobbs, 5 Met. 1, 3.

Creeger v. Springfield Rendering Co.

293 Mass. 541 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 26, 1936

Marble v. Ross, 124 Mass. 44, 47 . Dix v. Somerset Coal Co. 217 Mass. 146, 147, 148 . Fraser v. Chapman, 256 Mass. 1, 4 . Greeley v. Jameson, 265 Mass. 465, 471 . … Goodwin v. E. B. Nelson Grocery Co. 239 Mass. 232, 234 . Bottcher v. Buck, 265 Mass. 4, 6 . Andrews v. Jordan Marsh Co. 283 Mass. 158 .

Gordon v. Chief of Police of Cambridge

244 Mass. 491 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 13, 1923

Corliss v. Civil Service Commissioners, 242 Mass. 61 . See Dooling v. City Council of Fitchburg, 242 Mass. 599, 602, 603 . Cases like Tucker v. Boston, 223 Mass. 478 , Thomas v. … See Gardner v. Lowell, 221 Mass. 150 ; Murray v. Justices of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, 233 Mass. 186 . Petition dismissed.

Setterlund v. Groton-Dunstable Regional School Committee

382 Mass. 328 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 20, 1981

If this were the case, a board could merely nibble away and reduce one’s employment until economic necessity forced the tenured teacher to resign. Such interpretation cannot be sanctioned.” Caviness v. … Board of Educ. 59 Ill. App. 3d 28, 31 (1978). We find this reasoning persuasive.

Burbank v. Farnham

220 Mass. 514 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 31, 1915

Commonwealth v. Suffolk Trust Co. 161 Mass. 550 . Robinson v. Brown, 182 Mass. 266 . The exceptions or appeal must get back into the trial court before anything more can be done there. … See Cole v. Bates, 186 Mass. 584 ; Brown v. Pierce, 97 Mass. 46 ; White v. Dodge, 187 Mass. 449 .

Dooling v. Fire Commissioner of Malden

309 Mass. 156 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 27, 1941

See Donaghy v. Macy, 167 Mass. 178, 180 ; People v. Ham, 166 N. Y. 477, 483 . We think that the tenure act, G. L. (Ter. … Garvey v. Lowell, 199 Mass. 47, 50 . Yunitz v. Chelsea, 270 Mass. 179, 181 . Williams v. New Bedford, 303 Mass. 213, 216 . State v. Seattle, 121 Wash. 247, 252 . Essinger v. New Castle, 275 Penn. St. 408, 412.

Hapgood v. Houghton

39 Mass. 480 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 5, 1839

East v. Cook, 2 Ves. sen. 33. The same principle, substantially, was laid down in Ward v. Ward, 15 Pick. 526 . … The decision in that case is conformable to the exception as laid down by Maddock and in East v. Cook, 2 Ves. sen. 33. There are other exceptions to the general rule as laid down in Hyde v.

Electronics Corp. of America v. Commissioner of Revenue

402 Mass. 672 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 22, 1988

McCarthy v. Commissioner of Revenue, 391 Mass. 630, 632-633 (1984), and cases cited. Eaton, Crane & Pike Co. v. Commonwealth, 237 Mass. 523, 530 (1921), S.C., 241 Mass. 309 (1922). … The decision of the Appellate Tax Board is reversed. The case is remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. So ordered. 1 In Supermarkets Gen. Corp. v.

Haufler v. Zotos

446 Mass. 489 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 12, 2006

In Bell v. … Nancy Zotos addressed complaints to the town’s zoning board of appeals, the town’s planning board, the town’s board of health, the town’s historical society, the town itself, the North River Commission, the State Department

State Tax Commission v. Blinder

336 Mass. 698 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 5, 1958

Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation v. Baker, 303 Mass. 606, 610 . Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation v. Bullard, 313 Mass. 72, 73 . … The Appellate Tax Board granted the following requests for rulings of the State tax commission: “3.

Grigaliunos v. Frost

270 Mass. 455 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 26, 1930

Jones v. Jones, 223 Mass. 540 . No error of law appears. … Browne v. Doolittle, 151 Mass. 595 . The order that she turn over the bank book and money held by her on deposit was proper. Her right or lack of right to withhold them had been determined in another proceeding.

Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. v. Appeals Court

372 Mass. 539 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 11, 1977

This decision, however, may be reversed by the action of a majority of the board of State officials. … See Sanford v.

Soderlund v. Helman

215 Mass. 542 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 20, 1913

Cases like Gushee v. Eddy, 11 Gray, 502 , relied on by the defendant, are not applicable. The fourth and last ruling requested was that to enable the plaintiff to recover she must have made a demand on the defendant. … Andrews v. Frye, 104 Mass. 234 . 9 Am. & Eng. Encyc. of Law, (2d ed.) 199. Exceptions overruled. The cases were submitted on briefs. Hall, J. ■

King v. McEvoy

86 Mass. 110 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 15, 1862

Hubbell v. Flint, 13 Gray, 277 . As to one of the items, the plaintiff contends that he had a right to sell it as importer. It appears that one Sylvester E. … The case of Brown v. Maryland, 12 Wheat. 410 , and the License Cases, 5 How. (U. S.) 504, do not conflict with this view.

Baker v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.

346 Mass. 774 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 29, 1963

Wilcox v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. 304 Mass. 441 , and cases cited. Segal v. Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co. 337 Mass. 185, 188-189 , and cases cited. See Walterman v. Mutual Benefit Health & Acc. Assn. 260 App. Div. (N. … Co. v. Brown, 203 Okla. 407 .

Hacker v. Nitschke

310 Mass. 754 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 29, 1942

of the upper berth, the iron would hook over the top of the side board; and that the ladder was designed to be used in this way. … In Ingalls v.

Berenson v. H. G. Vogel Co.

253 Mass. 185 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 29, 1925

Board of Trade of Chicago v. United States, 246 U. S. 231 . The pertinent inquiry, whether there is an unlawful purpose creating or tending to create a monopoly depends on the circumstances of each case. … Board of Trade of Chicago v. United States, 246 U. S. 231 . United States v. United States Steel Corp. 251 U. S. 417 . Commonwealth v. Dyer, 243 Mass. 472 .

Burke v. Davis

191 Mass. 20 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 2, 1906

The distance between the feed board and the guard was plainly visible. … The lower surface of the guard blade was parallel to the feed board and about an inch above it.