Case law

Cronan v. Armitage

285 Mass. 520 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 26, 1934

On the wall of a corridor in the building was a meter board high above the floor. … Whitman told the plaintiff to remove the three fuse blocks from the board. The plaintiff said: “Will I shut the power?” Whitman answered: “No.”

Phelps v. Stearns

70 Mass. 105 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 15, 1855

Damport v. Sympson, Cro. Eliz. 520, Owen, 158, and 2 Anderson, 47. Eyres v. Sedgewicke, Cro. Jac. 601, and 2 Rol. R. 197. Harding v. Bodman, Hut. 11. Dawling v. Wenman, 2 Show. 446. Bostwick v. Lewis, 2 Day, 447 . … Smith v. Lewis, 3 Johns. 157 . Cunningham v. Brown, 18 Verm. 123 . Dunlap v. Glidden, 31 Maine, 439. On these authorities, this demurrer must be sustained ; there being no statute provision for the action.

Mahoney v. Attorney General

346 Mass. 709 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 15, 1964

They placed the “care, control and management” in a board of trustees. … Adams v. Plunkett, 274 Mass. 453, 465 . Drury v. Natick, 10 Allen, 169 ,176.

Post v. Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Quality Engineering

403 Mass. 29 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 18, 1988

Corp. v. Seaman-Andwall Corp., 364 Mass. 683, 693-694 (1984). Mansfield Associates prevailed on its complaint on jurisdictional grounds and not on any substantive point. … The disposal systems approved by the Mansfield board of health did not include any secondary water treatment.

Dexter v. State Tax Commission

350 Mass. 380 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 9, 1966

The trustees then appealed to the Appellate Tax Board (the board) under the formal procedure. The facts set forth above were stipulated. … The board found that each trustee was in 1944, and at the date of the board’s decision, a resident of Massachusetts.

Brunelle v. Lowell Electric Light Corp.

194 Mass. 407 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 28, 1907

Jones v. Holden, 182 Mass. 384 . Pickering v. Weld, 159 Mass. 522 . Abbott v. North Andover, 145 Mass. 484 . Commonwealth v. Perry, 139 Mass. 198 . Cutter v. Howe, 122 Mass. 541 . … And see further Geyser-Marion Gold-Mining Co. v. Stark, 106 Fed. Rep. 558; Consolidated Coal & Mining Co. v. Floyd, 25 L. R. A. 848.

Eaton v. Green

39 Mass. 526 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 22, 1839

So, where a conveyance is made to secure a debt, and the debt continues to subsist, it is deemed in equity a mortgage, and not a conditional sale. 4 Kent’s Comm. (2d edit.) 144 ; Kelleran v. Brown, 4 Mass. R. 444 . … In the case of Kelleran v.

Young v. Snell

200 Mass. 242 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 24, 1908

Lindenbaum v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad, 197 Mass. 314 . The case does not come within Jennings v. Tompkins, 180 Mass. 302 . … Further, in our opinion this is not the case of a transitory risk, as in Donovan v. American Linen Co. 180 Mass. 127 , and McCann v. Kennedy, 167 Mass. 23 .

Inhabitants of Danvers v. County Commissioners

43 Mass. 185 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 15, 1840

This was fully considered and the reasons assigned, in Wilbraham v. County Commissioners, 11 Pick. 322 . … Princeton v. County Commissioners of Worcester. 17 *189 Pick. 154.

Dorsyl Realty, Inc. v. Worcester Redevelopment Authority

357 Mass. 777 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 6, 1970

Klous v. Commonwealth, 188 Mass. 149, 152 . Nor was there error in permitting certain questions relative to the expert’s appraisal techniques. … Evidence given by the chairman of the board of assessors relative to a 1964 abatement on the assessment of the property was not erroneously admitted since in effect it did not seek to vary or add to the record of the board

Demetre's Case

322 Mass. 95 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 3, 1947

Houser v. Young, 247 Ala. 562 . Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp. v. Pallero, 66 Colo. 190 . Hartz v. Hartford Faience Co. 90 Conn. 539, 541-542 . Young v. Mississippi River Power Co. 191 Iowa, 650 . Bushing v. … Ramczik v. Winona Machine & Foundry Co. 174 Minn. 156 . Ransdell v. International Shoe Co. 329 Mo. 47 . Bernier v. Greenville Mills, Inc. 93 N. H. 165. Associated Employers’ Reciprocal v.

Burke v. Atlantic Research Corp.

358 Mass. 764 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 2, 1971

Miller v. Richards, 305 Mass. 424, 426 .” Reidy v. Old Colony Gas Co. 315 Mass. 631, 632-633 . … Moreover, any settlement by the insurer is subject to the approval of the Industrial Accident Board or of the trial judge. G. L. c. 152, § 15.

Bolster v. City of Lawrence

225 Mass. 387 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 3, 1917

Bedford, 125 Mass. 526 , Pinkerton v. Randolph, 200 Mass. 24 , boards of aider-men, Child v. Boston, 4 Allen, 41 , 51, the city government, Griggs v. Foote, 4 Allen, 195 , licensing boards, McGinnis v. … Treasurer & School House Commissioners of Boston, 212 Mass. 583, 588 , boards of health, Barry v. Smith, 191 Mass. 78, 88, 91 , other health officers, Harrington v.

Tuckerman v. Moynihan

282 Mass. 562 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 4, 1933

Oliver v. … Gale, 182 Mass. 39 , although it dealt *568 with a contract of a board of health, is, in principle, authority that a town may require a board, not its agent but performing a public duty at the expense of the town, to let

Rendek v. Sheriff of Bristol County

440 Mass. 1017 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 22, 2003

See also Walter v. Board of Educ. of Quincy Sch. Dist. … The judge had remanded the case for rehearing by the board based on the board’s failure to produce a transcript of the original hearing.

Fustolo v. Hollander

455 Mass. 861 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 1, 2010

In the Kobrin case, we concluded that where an expert witness, hired by the Board of Registration in Medicine (board) to assist with its investigation of a psychiatrist, provided testimony at a board hearing for which he … Fabre v.

Carroll v. Carroll

188 Mass. 558 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 22, 1905

Badger v. Holmes, 6 Gray, 118 . Brown v. Wellington, 106 Mass. 318 . Kirchgassner v. Rodick, 170 Mass. 543 . … Peru Steel & Iron Co. v. Whipple File & Steel *560 Manuf. Co. 109 Mass. 464 . Holmes v. Hunt, 122 Mass. 505, 515 . Newell v. Chesley, 122 Mass. 522, 524 . Quin v. Bay State Distilling Co. 171 Mass. 288 , 290. A.

Huntington v. American Bank

23 Mass. 340 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 19, 1828

The contrary doctrine was held in the case of Yate v. Willan, 2 East, 128, but we think the case of Clarke v. … See Seaton v. Benedict, 5 Bingh. 31; 2 Stark. Ev (5th Am. ed.) 600 to 603; Jones v. Hoar, 5 Pick. (2nd ed.) 291, note 1; Cox v. Brain, 3 Taunt. 95; Bulwer v. Horne, 1 Nev. & Man. 117.

O'Leary v. Smith

255 Mass. 121 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 26, 1926

vestibule and it was the foot on the vestibule which slipped; that she looked upon her shoes and saw there was something dirty on the side of her shoe; it seemed like something that had been spilled; that it was reddish brown … Norton v. Hudner, 213 Mass. 257 . O’Neill v. Boston Elevated Railway, 248 Mass. 362 , and cases cited. The case at bar is distinguishable from Anjou v. Boston Elevated Railway, 208 Mass. 273 .

Gaudet v. Building Inspector of Dracut

358 Mass. 807 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 3, 1970

Vassalotti v. Board of Appeals of Sudbury, 348 Mass. 659 . Smigliani v. Board of Appeals of Saugus, 348 Mass. 794 .