Case law

Fencer v. Wills

259 Mass. 546 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 20, 1927

Trowbridge v. Wetherbee, 11 Allen, 361 . Wetherbee v. Potter, 99 Mass. 354 . King v. Barnes, 109 N. Y. 267 . Browne, Statute of Frauds, § 116.

Gorski v. New York Life Insurance

315 Mass. 17 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 29, 1943

Sohier v. Norwich Fire Ins. Co. 11 Allen, 336 . Leland v. United Commercial Travelers of America, 233 Mass. 558 . Lunt v. Aetna Life Ins. Co. 253 Mass. 610 . Brown v. Boston Casualty Co. 295 Mass. 298 . Sullivan v. … Garvey v. Wesson, 258 Mass. 48 . Bramley v. White, 281 Mass. 343 . O’Reilly v. Irving, 284 Mass. 522 . Frost v. Hunter, 312 Mass. 16 . The instant case is distinguishable from Murray v. Cont inental Ins.

Pereira v. Commissioner of Social Services

432 Mass. 251 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Aug 9, 2000

Pickering v. Board of Educ., supra at 568. In addition, “the employee’s interest in expressing herself on [the] matter must not be outweighed by any injury the speech could cause” to that interest. Waters v. … Pickering v. Board of Educ., supra at 568 . We recognize that a public employee has a strong interest in speaking her mind free from government sanction.

Royal Indemnity Co. v. Blakely

372 Mass. 86 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 3, 1977

See, e.g., Lincoln v. Hillside Park ’N Shop, Inc., 370 Mass. 209, 216 (1976); Green v. Board of Appeal of Norwood, 358 Mass. 253, 257 (1970); Henchey v. Cox, 348 Mass. 742, 747 (1965); Foster v. … Board of Educ. v. Assessor of Worcester, 368 Mass. 511, 516 (1975), and cases cited.

Mahoney's Case

228 Mass. 555 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 27, 1917

St. 1911, c. 751, Part V, § 2. … It is uncontroverted that “nothing was ever said about board.”

Boston Elevated Railway Co. v. Commonwealth

199 Mass. 96 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 21, 1908

Brown v. Winnisimmet Co. 11 Allen, 326 , 333. But the authority to exact an excise rests with the Legislature, by whom alone the expediency of such taxation is to be determined. Const. Mass. c. 1, art. 4. … Commonwealth v. People's Five Cents Savings Bank, 5 Allen, 428 , 431. Oliver v. Washington Mills, 11 Allen, 268 , 274, 275.

Boston Belting Co. v. City of Boston

149 Mass. 44 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 5, 1889

Perry v. Worcester, 6 Gray, 544 . Washburn & Moen Manuf. Co. v. Worcester, 116 Mass. 458 . Morse v. Worcester, 139 Mass. 389 . … But these cases go upon the ground that the mayor and aldermen in laying out *47 sewers act as an independent board of public officers, and that the city has no control over, and no responsibility for, the plan or system

Bird v. Cole

47 Mass. 326 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 15, 1843

The principle seems to be directly stated, in Peirce v. … Hubbly v. Brown, 16 Johns. 70 . Jones v. Brooke, 4 Taunt. 464. Greenl. on Ev. § 401. The same question has lately come before the supreme court of Maine, in the case of Southard v.

Gaeta v. National Fire Insurance Co. of Hartford

410 Mass. 592 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 9, 1991

Furthermore, according to § 15, no pretrial settlement of a third-party tort action “shall be made . . . without the approval of either the board, the reviewing board, or the court in which the action has been commenced after … See Ferrari v. Toto, 383 Mass. 36, 37 (1981). “Covered claims” do not include claims for amounts due to insurers. G. L. c. 175D, § 1 (2). Ferrari v. Toto, supra.

Shawsheen Manor Corp. v. Colantino

329 Mass. 715 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 30, 1953

Nelson v. Boynton, 3 Met. 396, 402 . Ames v. Foster, 106 Mass. 400, 403 . Furbish v. Goodnow, 98 Mass. 296 . Wills v. Brown, 118 Mass. 137, 138 . Crowley v. Whittemore, 255 Mass. 99, 103 . Kahn v. … Colpitts v. L. C. Fisher Co. 289 Mass. 232, 234-237 . Kalker v. Bailen, 290 Mass. 202, 206 . Rainault v. Evarts, 296 Mass. 590, 596 .

Bangs v. Watson

75 Mass. 211 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 15, 1857

In Betts v. … Brown, for the defendant.

Tupper v. Union Street Railway Co.

237 Mass. 485 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 2, 1921

The defendant had the right to use the headlight, Daigneau v. … See Hansen v. Fitchburg & Leominster Street Railway, 222 Mass. 116 . A circular letter of the board of railroad commissioners of May 21, 1906, was in evidence.

Van Sant v. Building Inspector of Dennis

352 Mass. 289 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 31, 1967

Board of Appeals of Marblehead, 339 Mass. 205, 208 . … Lexington v. Simeone, 334 Mass. 127, 130 . The burden is on the petitioners to show the contrary. Massachusetts Broken Stone Co. v. Weston, 346 Mass. 657, 660 . Anderson v. Wilmington, 347 Mass. 302, 303 .

Dalton v. Gibson

192 Mass. 1 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 17, 1906

Upon this roof a number of boards were laid and a clothes shed constructed, which was used by the other tenants of the building for drying clothes. … Roche v. Sawyer, 176 Mass. 71 . Jordan v. Sullivan, 181 Mass. 348 . Phelan v. Fitzpatrick, 188 Mass. 237 .

Lang v. Terry

163 Mass. 138 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 28, 1895

Magee v. West End Street Railway, 151 Mass. 240 . Davis v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad, 159 Mass. 532 . See also Thyng v. Fitchburg Railroad, 156 Mass. 13 ; Maher v. … Prendible v. Connecticut River Manuf. Co. 160 Mass. 131 . Poole v. Deane, 152 Mass. 587 . Exceptions overruled.

Lebowitch v. Commonwealth

235 Mass. 357 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 30, 1920

Commonwealth v. Wakelin, 230 Mass. 567, 570 . Commonwealth v. Blake, 12 Allen, 188 . Commonwealth v. Lannan, 13 Allen, 563 , 567. State v. Carver, 49 Maine, 588, 593. United States v. Gale, 109 U. S. 65 . See Cole v. … Commonwealth v. Brown, 167 Mass. 144, 146 . No error is shown in this or any other particular. Judgment affirmed. Petition for writ of habeas corpus denied.

Pearlstein v. Novitch

239 Mass. 228 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 28, 1921

Atwood v. Cobb, 16 Pick. 227 . Hebb v. Welsh, supra. Buffington v. McNally, supra. Nickerson v. Weld, 204 Mass. 346 . Nickerson v. Bridges, 216 Mass. 416, 420 . … Hurley v. Brown, 98 Mass. 545 . Jennings v. Puffer, 203 Mass. 534 . Nickerson v. Weld, supra. Willett v. Smith, 214 Mass. 494 .

Roberts v. Jones

307 Mass. 504 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 4, 1940

Roberts v. Wallace, 100 Minn. 359 . Hunt v. Wright, 47 N. H. 396. Spaulding v. Woodward, 53 N. H. 573. Yglesias v. Dewey, 15 Dick. (N. J.) 62. Brown v. Coddington, 72 Hun, 147 . Smith v. Smith , 214 App. Div. (N. … Hall v. Tufts, 18 Pick. 455 . Blackstone Bank v. Davis, 21 Pick. 42 . Gleason v. Fayerweather, 4 Gray, 348 . Winsor v. Mills, 157 Mass. 362, 364 . Cushing v. Spalding, 164 Mass. 287 . Southard v.

Whiting v. Price

172 Mass. 240 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 23, 1898

But the requirement as it has been worked out does not call for more than reasonable diligence; Holst v. Stewart, 161 Mass. 516 , 522 ; Brown v. Leach, 107 Mass. 364, 368 ; Nowlan v. … Holst v. Stewart, 161 Mass. 516, 522, 523 . See Burns v. Lane, 138 Mass. 350, 355, 356 ; Whiteside v. Brawley, 152 Mass. 133 .

Commonwealth v. Ellison

376 Mass. 1 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 18, 1978

Sometime next day, December 1, police in Danville, Virginia, boarded the bus and arrested Williams and Irving. … v.