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  • Commonwealth v. Carey

    19 Mass. 47 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 15, 1823

    See Brown v. Commonwealth, 8 Mass. R. 64 . Reporter. See 3 Chitty’s Crim. Law, (2d ed.) 947, 948, 1048,1049 Arnold, v. Cast, 3 Gill & Johns. 219; Rex v. Crooke, Str. 901. But Spangler v. … State v. Carr, 5 N. Hamp. R. 373 ; United States v. Holtsclaw, 2 Hayw. 379 ; Furber v. Hilliard, 2 N. Hamp. R. 480 ; The State v. Ravelin, 1 Chipman’s R. 295; Johnson v. Davern, 19 Johns. R. 134; Tharpe v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Cole v. Bates

    186 Mass. 584 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 21, 1904

    Knowles v. Sullivan, 182 Mass. 318 . Henchey v. Henchey, 167 Mass. 77 . Derome v. Vose, 140 Mass. 575 . Farrelly v. Ladd, 10 Allen, 127 . Peabody v. Tarbell, 2 Cush. 226 . … In Barnes v. Johnson, 84 Ill. 95 , the money due to the plaintiff was collected by the defendant, and in Tevis v. Brown, 3 J. J.

    Cited 23 timesPublished
  • Massachusetts Turnpike Authority v. Commonwealth

    347 Mass. 524 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 29, 1964

    Graustein v. Boston & Maine R.R. 304 Mass. 23, 25 . Zwick v. Goldberg, 304 Mass. 66, 69 . Furlong v. Cronan, 305 Mass. 464, 465 . … See Johnson-Foster Co. v. D’Amore Constr. Co. 314 Mass. 416, 419 ; Opinion of the Justices, 334 Mass. 721, 734 ; Waite Hardware Co. v. Ardini & Pfau, Inc. 339 Mass. 634, 637 ; Commonwealth v.

    Cited 21 timesPublished
  • Rogan v. Liberty Mutual Insurance

    305 Mass. 186 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 2, 1940

    Mathewson v. Colpitts, 284 Mass. 581, 585 . Gallo v. Foley, 296 Mass. 306, 309 . Brown v. Great American Indemnity Co. 298 Mass. 101 . … Needham v. Thayer, 147 Mass. 536 . Cheshire National Bank v. Jaynes, 224 Mass. 14, 15, 16 . Bay State Wholesale Drug Co. v. Whitman, 280 Mass. 188, 195 . Schmidt v. Schmidt, 280 Mass. 216, 220 . McDonald v.

    Cited 38 timesPublished
  • Union Railway Co. v. Mayor of Cambridge

    93 Mass. 287 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 15, 1865

    Cambridge v. Cambridge Railroad, 10 Allen, 57 , 58. … The board of aldermen, in passing their order, first create the power, and act in a quasi legislative capacity.

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  • Shell Oil Co. v. City of Revere

    383 Mass. 682 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 4, 1981

    Blue Hills Cemetery, Inc. v. Board of Registration in Embalming & Funeral Directing, 379 Mass. 368, 372 (1979). … Blue Hills Cemetery, Inc. v. Board of Registration in Embalming & Funeral Directing, 379 Mass. 368, 376 (1979).

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  • Nelson's Case

    217 Mass. 467 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 19, 1914

    Hodgson v. West Stanley Colliery, [1910] A. C. 229. Potts v. Niddrie & Benhar Coal Co. Ltd., [1913] A. C. 531. … We are constrained not to follow Northwestern Iron Co. v. Industrial Commission, 154 Wis. 97 , so far as its reasoning is inconsistent with this conclusion.

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  • Lazenby v. Henderson

    241 Mass. 177 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 22, 1922

    Parker v. Nickerson, 112 Mass. 195 . Warren v. Para Rubber Shoe Co. 166 Mass. 97 . United Zinc Co. v. Harwood, 216 Mass. 474, 476 . Malden & Melrose Gas Light Co. v. Chandler, 220 Mass. 1, 8 . Elliott v. … See Little v. Phipps, 208 Mass. 331, 335 ; Kelly v. Allin, 212 Mass. 327 .

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  • Commonwealth v. Hudson

    446 Mass. 709 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 16, 2006

    Commonwealth v. Martin, 427 Mass. 816, 822 (1998), citing Commonwealth v. Roberts, 423 Mass. 17, 20 (1996). Commonwealth v. … The prosecutor stipulated that this was not the case and, on cross-examination, Brown admitted he had not identified Hudson at the first trial.

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  • McChristal v. Clisbee

    190 Mass. 120 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 3, 1906

    In McDonald v. Brown, 23 R. I. 546, it was held that a bankrupt was not released by his discharge in bankruptcy from a judgment giving damages for a libel, and in In re Colaluca, 133 Fed. … The case of Colwell v. Tinker was decided first by the Supreme Court and afterward by the Court of Appeals in New York, and then by the Supreme Court of the United .States. Colwell v. Tinker, 6 Am. Bankr.

    Cited 28 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. McGuinness

    421 Mass. 472 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 8, 1995

    Commonwealth v. Delgado, 367 Mass. 432, 438 (1975). … A judge may not interfere with the executive function of the parole board by using postconviction evidence in an order to revise and revoke. Commonwealth v. Amirault, 415 Mass. 112, 116-117 (1993).

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  • Vagts v. Superintendent & Inspector of Buildings of Cambridge

    355 Mass. 711 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 17, 1969

    Lanner v. Board of Appeal of Tewksbury, 348 Mass. 220, 228 . … Lanner v. Board of Appeal of Tewksbury, 348 Mass. 220, 228 .

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  • Fruth v. Dunbar

    293 Mass. 403 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 6, 1936

    It could not rightly have been ruled as matter of law that the burden of proving contributory negligence on the part of the deceased had been sustained by the defendants, Mercier v. … Brown v. Henderson, 285 Mass. 192 . The cases at bar are governed by Crowley v. Freeman, 291 Mass. 105 , and the cases there collected. In each case the entry may be Order dismissing report affirmed.

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  • James v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

    213 Mass. 424 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 29, 1913

    McCoy v. Jordan, 184 Mass. 575, 582 . Goodrum v. Grimes, 185 Mass. 80 . … Brown v. Dean, 123 Mass. 254, 266, 267 .

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  • Egan's Case

    331 Mass. 11 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 5, 1954

    This is an appeal by an insurer from a decree of the Superior Court awarding compensation to the employee in accordance with a decision of the reviewing board of the Industrial Accident Board which affirmed and adopted the … See Matter of Babington v. Yellow Taxi Corp. 250 N. Y. 14 . Costs of this appeal under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 152, § 11A, inserted by St. 1945, c. 444, shall be allowed by the single justice. Decree affirmed.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Kaatz v. Curtis

    215 Mass. 311 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 18, 1913

    Robinson v. Brown, 182 Mass. 266 . There were objections to the master’s report, but so far as appears in the record no exceptions were filed. … Morgan v. Moore, 3 Gray, 319 . Farnsworth v. Taylor, 9 Gray, 162 . Boston Water Power Co. v. Boston, 127 Mass. 374 . McKenzie v. Gleason, 184 Mass. 452 . New England Structural Co. v.

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Cook

    371 Mass. 832 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 4, 1977

    The defendant was not impeached by the proper admission of more recent or more serious convictions than the uncounseled convictions, as in Gilday v. Commonwealth, 355 Mass. 799 (1969), Commonwealth v. Brown, 2 Mass. … Ct. 76, 83 (1974), and Gilday v. Scafati, supra at 1032 . Nor did he open up the subject of his prison record, as in Subilosky v. Commonwealth, supra at 396, and Subilosky v.

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  • Macheras v. Syrmopoulos

    319 Mass. 485 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 3, 1946

    The case is governed by Biggio v. Magee, 272 Mass. 185 , Long v. MacDougall, 273 Mass. 386 , and Browne v. Moran, 300 Mass. 107 . … Ansara v. Regan, 276 Mass. 586, 589 . Biggio v. Magee, 272 Mass. 185 . Long v. MacDougall, 273 Mass. 386 . Compare Wight v. Wight, 272 Mass. 154 . See United States v. Parker, 120 U.

    Cited 16 timesPublished
  • National Contracting Co. v. Commonwealth

    183 Mass. 89 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 27, 1903

    Palmer v. Sawyer, 114 Mass. 1, 13 . Newton Rubber Works v. Graham, 171 Mass. 352 . … Johnson v. Howard, 20 Minn. 370 . Hudson v. McCartney, 33 Wis. 331 . Williams v. Chicago, Santa Fé & California Railway, 112 Mo. 463 .

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  • Salter v. Boston & Albany Railroad

    239 Mass. 235 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 29, 1921

    Atkins v. Bordman, 2 Met. 457, 467 . Appleton v. Fullerton, 1 Gray, 186 . The King v. Jolliffe, 2 T. R. 90. Clifford v. Hoare, L. R. 9 C. P. 362. Goddard on Easements (7th ed.), 6. Crocker v. … Duncan v. Goldthwait, 216 Mass. 402 .

    Cited 4 timesPublished

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