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  • Williams v. City of New Bedford

    303 Mass. 213 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 24, 1939

    Attorney General v. Tufts, 239 Mass. 458, 480 . See also Phelps v. Board of Education of West New York, 300 U. S. 319, 322 ; Groves *215 v. Board of Education of Chicago, 367 Ill. 91, 95 ; Morrall v. … Heath v. Salt Lake City, 16 Utah, 374 . State v. Colson, 7 Ohio App. 438 . State v. Seattle, 74 Wash. 199, 204, 205 , and cases cited. Stone v. Mahon, 88 S. C. 576, 579. Downey v.

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  • Upton v. Salem Commercial Insurance

    49 Mass. 605 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 15, 1844

    The brig accordingly proceeded, with the shingles on board, to Buenos Ayres, where she was totally lost. … The defendants’ counsel relies on the case of Inglis v. Vaux, 3 Campb. 437. But the decision in that case does not militate with the principle now laid down.

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  • Meadows v. Town Clerk of Saugus

    333 Mass. 760 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 28, 1956

    Needham v. County Commissioners of Norfolk, 324 Mass. 293, 295 . Adamsky v. City Council of New Bedford, 326 Mass. 706, 707 . Hannigan v. Board of Appeals of Lowell, 328 Mass. 366, 367 . Kane v. … See Sheehan v. Board of Appeals of Saugus, 332 Mass. 188 .

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  • National Ass'n of Government Employees, Inc. v. Central Broadcasting Corp.

    379 Mass. 220 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 13, 1979

    Murphy agreed that if an outsider could talk, so should the chairman of the board of selectmen. … Hahn v.

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  • Commonwealth v. Pike

    430 Mass. 317 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 4, 1999

    Commonwealth v. Brown, 401 Mass. 745, 747 (1988). … Board of Registration in Pharmacy, 408 Mass. 654, 662 (1990) (“The dispensing of additional medication within the time period that was covered by an earlier prescription may be used as evidence that the medication was not

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  • American National Red Cross v. Labor Relations Commission

    363 Mass. 525 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 4, 1973

    Since the National Labor Relations Board (Board) has declined to assert jurisdiction over the Program in the instant case because “[its] operations are intimately related to those of non-profit hospitals which are exempt … Bank v. Luckett, 321 U. S. 233 . Thus, in First Natl. Bank v.

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  • Borggaard v. Department of Public Works

    298 Mass. 417 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 15, 1937

    Crimmins & Peirce Co. v. Kidder Peabody Acceptance Corp. 282 Mass. 367, 369 . Hallett v. Moore, 282 Mass. 380, 390 . Tansey v. McDonnell, 142 Mass. 220, 221 . Rubenstein v. Lottow, 220 Mass. 156, 161 . … Shuman v. Gilbert, 229 Mass. 225 . Commonwealth v. Norman, 249 Mass. 123, 130, 131 . Davis v. Board of Registration in Medicine, 251 Mass. 283, 284 . Morley v. Police Commissioner of Boston, 261 Mass. 269, 278 .

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  • Hallinan v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.

    273 Mass. 27 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 2, 1930

    The testimony tended to prove that the three plaintiffs boarded the car at the same stopping place, entering through the front vestibule, the floor of which was one step down from the level of the car floor. … The fact that one of the three passengers who had boarded the car was a child three years of age was known or should have been known to the motorman. See Hamilton v.

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  • Vera v. Mercantile Fire & Marine Insurance

    216 Mass. 154 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 25, 1913

    Metropolitan Coal Co. v. Boutell Transportation & Towing Co. 185 Mass. 391, 397 . Union Institution for Savings v. Phoenix Ins. Co. 196 Mass. 230 . Paris v. Hamburg-Bremen Fire Ins. Co. 204 Mass. 90 . Atwood v. … Brown & W. L. Came, for the defendants, submitted a brief. No argument or brief was presented for the plaintiffs. This disposes of the single narrow question presented to us.

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  • Gentile v. DIRECTOR OF THE DIVISION OF EMPLOYMENT SEC.

    329 Mass. 500 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 1, 1952

    The findings of the board of review as to the facts, if supported by any evidence, are conclusive. G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 151A, § 42, as amended. Weiner v. … United States, 291 Fed. 940 ; Jeffery-De Witt Insulator Co. v. National Labor Relations Board, 91 Fed. (2d) 134; Mark Hopkins, Inc. v. California Employment Commission, 24 Cal. (2d) 744; Sandoval v.

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  • Malcom v. Spoor

    53 Mass. 279 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 15, 1847

    Melville v. Brown, 15 Mass. 82 . … See Rowley v. Rice, 11 Met. 337 . Exceptions overruled.

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  • Stevens v. Boston & Worcester Railroad

    74 Mass. 262 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 15, 1857

    But it does not depend on the mere priority of signing either bill of lading; it is the shipment which gives the lien — the delivery on board the boat of the common carrier, with notice to the party, which would vest the … Robinson v. Baker, 5 Cush. 137 .

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  • Quinlan v. City of Cambridge

    320 Mass. 124 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 8, 1946

    or officer who appoints them or to some other board or officer. … Hough v. Contributory Retirement Appeal Board, 309 Mass. 534 . Beaudette’s Case, 314 Mass. 728 .

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  • Chessman v. Somerville Housing Authority

    332 Mass. 92 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 23, 1954

    Not only was there no approval of the contract employing the plaintiff, but the State housing board expressly disapproved it. … Musson v. Fales, 16 Mass. 332 . Roys v. Johnson, 7 Gray, 162 . Bemis v. Wilder, 100 Mass. 446 . Kelley v. Riley, 106 Mass. 339 . Gibbs & Sterrett Manuf. Co. v. Brucker, 111 U. S. 597, 601 . Stevens v.

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  • Rogers v. Newburyport Railroad

    83 Mass. 16 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 15, 1861

    In Brown v. Providence, Hartford, & Fishkill Railroad Co. 12 Gray,, such proof was conceded to be necessary.

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  • Gavros's Case

    240 Mass. 399 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 28, 1922

    The board, on review, affirmed the decision of the single member. … Mountain Ice Co. v. McNeil, 91 N. J. L. 528. Jacquemin v. Turner & Seymour Manuf. Co. 92 Conn. 382 . Armitage v. Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, [1902] 2 K. B. 178. Blake v. Head, 106 L. T. Rep. 822; S. C. 5 B. W. C.

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  • Talbot v. Gingras

    246 Mass. 356 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 9, 1923

    Brown v. Wentworth, 181 Mass. 49, 52 . … King v. Bronson, 122 Mass. 122 . Wing v. Hayford, 124 Mass. 249 . Austin v. Hatch, 159 Mass. 198 . Turansky v. Weinberg, 211 Mass. 324 . Bon v. Graves, 216 Mass. 440 . Taylor v. Weingartner, 223 Mass. 243, 247, 248 .

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  • In the Matter of the Discipline of an Attorney

    Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 23, 2014

    Because the bar discipline proceeding in which Langadinos sought to intervene is now concluded, his appeal is moot.1 See Rasten v. Northeastern Univ., 432 Mass. 1003 (2000), cert. denied, 531 U.S. 1168 (2001). … First Assistant Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk, 463 Mass. 1019 (2012) (private individual may file complaint with Board of Bar Overseers and participate as witness in board proceeding but is

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  • Sawyer v. Baldwin

    28 Mass. 492 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 14, 1831

    First Parish in Sudbury v. Stearns, 21 Pick. 148 Haskell v. Haven, 3 Pick. 404 ; Scott v. Dickinson, 14 Pick. 276 ; Leach v Hill, 3 Metc. 173 ; Niles v. Hancock, ibid. 568; Bussey v. Briggs, 2 Metc. 132 Brown v. … Putnam, ibid. 271; Agry v. Betts, 3 Fairf. 415; Black v. Ballard 1 Shepl. 239.

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  • Commonwealth v. Hayes

    372 Mass. 505 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 5, 1977

    Michael Magruder for the Massachusetts Parole Board, amicus curiae, submitted a brief. QUIRICO, J. … Massachusetts Parole Board and Advisory Board of Pardons, Structure, Rules and Statutes, at 11-12 (1972).

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