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  • Snow v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad

    185 Mass. 321 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 31, 1904

    Nestor v. Fall River, 183 Mass. 265 . But there was a strong intimation in Raymond v. … The plaintiff relies amongst other cases on Brown v. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, 54 Wis. 342 . But this court expressly declined to follow that case in Raymond v. Haverhill, ubi supra.

    Cited 24 timesPublished
  • DeMello v. Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission

    411 Mass. 1001 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 4, 1991

    The commission concluded that the local board was warranted in revoking the license because the plaintiff violated the commission’s regulation (204 Code Mass. … See Rico’s of the Berkshires, Inc. v. Alcoholic Beverages Control Comm’n, 19 Mass. App. Ct. 1026, 1027 (1985); 204 Code Mass. Regs. § 2.05 (2) (“The licensee shall be responsible therefor, whether present or not”).

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Goggin's Case

    305 Mass. 309 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 27, 1940

    The decision of the single member was affirmed by the board. The county paid Goggin $4,500. He appealed from a decree of the Superior Court denying him any further payments. … But neither the Industrial Accident Board nor the Superior Court had any jurisdiction to do so in proceedings under the workmen’s compensation act. The decree must be reversed and the proceedings dismissed. Donnelly v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Lord v. Bigelow

    124 Mass. 185 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 1, 1878

    Small v. Franklin Mining Co. 99 Mass. 277 . He had not so conducted that he could be said to have sold collateral security within the meaning of the Gen. Sts. o. 161, § 64. In the case of Fletcher v. … Gordon v. Parmelee, 2 Allen, 212 . Bliss v. Nichols, 12 Allen, 443 . Bogle v. Chase, 117 Mass. 273 . Brown v. Jewett, 120 Mass. 215 .

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Jackson v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

    217 Mass. 515 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 20, 1914

    Justice Morton in Coy v. … Kelley v. Boston Elevated Railway, 210 Mass. 454 . Glennen v. Boston Elevated Railway, 207 Mass. 497 . Jackson v. Old Colony Street Railway, 206 Mass. 477 . Beverley v. Boston Elevated Railway, 194 Mass. 450 . Kuhlen v.

    Cited 25 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Houtenbrink

    235 Mass. 320 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 29, 1920

    Sections 2, 3, 4 and 7 relate to the appointment, meetings, records, reports and compensation of a board of registration in optometry. … Dent v. West Virginia, 129 U. S. 114 . Hawker v. New York, 170 U. S. 189 . Reetz v. Michigan, 188 U. S. 505 . Watson v. Maryland, 218 U. S. 173 .

    Cited 16 timesPublished
  • Taggart v. City of Fall River

    170 Mass. 325 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 25, 1898

    Jensen v. Waltham, 166 Mass. 344 . McManus v. Weston, 164 Mass. 263 . McCann v. Waltham, 163 Mass. 344 . Hennessey v. New Bedford, 153 Mass. 260 . … Wellesley, 148 Mass. 487 , where the same persons were overseers of the poor, surveyors of highways, and selectmen, and carried on the town farm, receiving paupers from another town to board there for pay, and also boarding

    Cited 16 timesPublished
  • Holbrook v. Clapp

    165 Mass. 563 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 2, 1896

    Winsor v. Savage, 9 Met. 346 . Mansfield v. Edwards, 136 Mass. 15 . Brown v. Fales, 139 Mass. 21 . … Williams v. Bemis, 108 Mass. 91 . White v. Wieland, 109 Mass. 291 . Dix v. Marcy, 116 Mass. 416 . Root v. Burt, 118 Mass. 521 . Riley v. Williams, 123 Mass. 506, 509 . Parker v. Tainter, 123 Mass. 185 . Dowling v.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Assessors of Quincy v. Cunningham Foundation

    305 Mass. 411 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 25, 1940

    This is an appeal by the board of assessors of the city of Quincy from a decision of the Board of Tax Appeals — now succeeded by the Appellate Tax Board, St. ■ 1937, c. 400 — abating a local property tax assessed for the … Collector of Taxes of Milton v. Boston, 278 Mass. 274, 277 . See also Wayland v. County Commissioners, 4 Gray, 500 ; Somerville v. Waltham, 170 Mass. 160 ; Miller v. Fitchburg, 180 Mass. 32 ; County of Middlesex v.

    Cited 21 timesPublished
  • Dexter v. Blanchard

    93 Mass. 365 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 15, 1865

    Kendall v. Lawrence, 22 Pick. 540 . Nightingale v. Withington, 15 Mass. 274 . McCarty v. Murray, 3 Gray, 578 . … Brown, 5 Cush. 488 , and cases cited. Exceptions overruled.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Cotter's Case

    333 Mass. 28 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 1, 1955

    We are of opinion that the reasons assigned by the single member for denying partial compensation, which were adopted and affirmed by the reviewing board, were tainted by error of law. It was said in Slavinsky v. … Young v. Duncan, 218 Mass. 346, 349 .”

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Commissioner of Natural Resources v. S. Volpe & Co.

    349 Mass. 104 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 26, 1965

    Barney & Carey Co. v. Milton, 324 Mass. 440, 445 . Gem Properties, Inc. v. Board of Appeals of Milton, 341 Mass. 99, 105-106 . Jenckes v. Building Commr. of Brookline, 341 Mass. 162, 166 . See 122 Main St. Corp. v. … To substantially the same effect are Forde v. Miami Beach, 146 Fla. 676, 685 , Grosso v. Board of Adjustment of the Township of Millburn, 137 N. J. L. 630, 632-634, Arverne Bay Constr. Co. v. Thatcher, 278 N.

    Cited 26 timesPublished
  • Gillander's Case

    243 Mass. 5 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 11, 1922

    this decision was followed by the board. … Dodge v. Adams, 19 Pick. 429 . Brow v. Brightman, 136 Mass. 187 . Baldwin v. Foster, 138 Mass. 449 . Foss v. Hartwell, 168 Mass. 66, 67 .

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Woodruff v. Halsey

    25 Mass. 334 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 12, 1829

    See Lunt v. Brown, 13 Maine R. (1 Shepley,) 236; Phelps v. Willard, 16 Pick. 32 ; 1 Chitty on PI. (7th Am. edit.) 193, 194.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Child v. City of Boston

    86 Mass. 41 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 15, 1862

    Mower v. Leicester, 9 Mass. 247 . Bigelow v. Randolph, 14 Gray, 541 . … Mayor, &c. of New York v. Furze, 3 Hill, (N. Y.) 616. Wilson v. Mayor, &c. of New York, 1 Denio, 395 . Eastman v. Meredith, 36 N. H. 284, and cases there cited.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Downs v. Perkin

    207 Mass. 409 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 5, 1911

    This is an action of contract to recover for board and lodging furnished by the plaintiff to one William H. … Larson v. Wyman, 14 Wend. 246 . Payne v. Baldwin, 14 Barb. 570 . Halsted v. Pelletreau, 91 N. Y. Supp. 927 . Dixon v. Frazee, 1 E. D. Smith, 32.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Paris v. Hamburg-Bremen Fire Insurance

    204 Mass. 90 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 6, 1910

    Union Institution for Savings v. Phoenix Ins. Co. 196 Mass. 230, 234 . The question in the case is whether the *92 plaintiff has shown conduct on the part of the defendant from which a waiver may be inferred. … He did not obtain the appointment of a full board of referees in the only way in which he had a right to do it.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Olsen v. Andrews

    168 Mass. 261 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 18, 1897

    Hatt v. Nay, 144 Mass. 186 . Kennedy v. Spring, 160 Mass. 203, 205 . Connors v. Morton, 160 Mass. 333 . Driscoll v. Fall River, 163 Mass. 105 . … See Baulec v. New York & Harlem Railroad, 59 N. Y. 356 ; Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, & Chicago Railway v. Ruby, 38 Ind. 294 ; Frazier v. Pennsylvania Railroad, 38 Penn. St. 104.

    Cited 28 timesPublished
  • Lynn Redevelopment Authority v. City of Lynn

    360 Mass. 503 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 15, 1971

    appropriated for the purpose of the department under the control of said board.’ . . . … See relative to similar problems Salisbury Water Supply Co. v. Salisbury, 341 Mass. 42, 47 .

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Kelley

    152 Mass. 432 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 25, 1890

    Chapter 181 of the Sts. of 1882 was considered in Farnham v. … Bardwell v. Purrington, 107 Mass. 419 .

    Cited 13 timesPublished

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