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  • Currier v. Gale

    80 Mass. 504 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 15, 1860

    The ease of Spargo v. Brown, 9 B. & C. 935, is to the same effect. In Phillips v. … In Daggett v. Shaw, 5 Met. 228 , Bartlett v. Emerson, 7 Gray, 174 and Ware v.

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  • Murphy v. Commissioner of the Department of Industrial Accidents

    415 Mass. 218 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 12, 1993

    If arbitration is not sought, the unresolved claim is referred to the Industrial Accident Board (board) of the department. … Board of Registrars of Voters of Concord, 374 Mass. 152, 160 (1978).

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  • Amero v. Adams

    217 Mass. 367 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 31, 1914

    He further testified that he (the plaintiff) “ saw that the plates had been taken out and some boards put over the place;” and that “the boards were simply laid down on top of the plates.” … Gaudet v. Stansfield, 182 Mass. 451 . Sampson v. Holbrook, 192 Mass. 421 . Whalen v. Rosnosky, 195 Mass. 545 . As was said by Holmes, J., in Whittaker v.

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  • Simpson v. Bright

    257 Mass. 309 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 22, 1926

    Wilson v. Head, 184 Mass. 515 . Weisberg v. Hunt, 239 Mass. 190, 199 . … Simpson v. William E.

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  • Commonwealth v. Wren

    391 Mass. 705 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 19, 1984

    United States v. Cortez, 449 U.S. 411, 417-418 (1981). Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 21 (1968). Commonwealth v. Bacon, 381 Mass. 642, 643-644 (1980). Commonwealth v. Ferrara, 376 Mass. 502, 504 (1978). Commonwealth v. … But here the police had more to go on than they had in Brown v. Texas, 443 U.S. 47 (1979), Commonwealth v. Thibeau, 384 Mass. 762 (1981), Commonwealth v. Bacon, supra, and Commonwealth v. Ferrara, supra.

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  • Mitsakos v. Morrill

    237 Mass. 29 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 5, 1921

    Lally, 172 Mass. 244 , and Brown v Holyoke Water Power Co. 152 Mass. 463 . Since it has been held that even in an oral lease there is an implied covenant of quiet enjoyment, Budd-Scott v. … Schienle v. Eckels, 227 Penn. St. 305. Dawson v. Marsh, 74 Conn. 498 . Rowbotham v. Pearce, 5 Houst. 135 . Schwartz v. McQuaid, 214 Ill. 357 . Silber v. Larkin, 94 Wis. 9 . Front v. Hardin, 56 Ind. 165 . Wacholz v.

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  • Kinan v. Trial Court

    400 Mass. 582 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Aug 10, 1987

    Lodge v. … See Holahan v.

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

    239 Mass. 254 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 29, 1921

    Chief Justice White in Northern Pacific Railway v. North Dakota, 250 U. … ” See also Dakota Central Telephone Co. v. South Dakota, 250 U. S. 163 ; Public Service Commissioners v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. 232 Mass. 465 ; West v.

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  • Commonwealth v. Commissioners of Highways

    23 Mass. 501 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 15, 1828

    It is intimated however by the learned counsel for the petitioners, who very candidly cited Miller’s Case, that the principle adopted in it is hardly consistent with the doctrine in Couch v. … See Thayer v. Seavey, 2 Fairfield, 286 to 290; 1 Kent’s Comm. (3d ed.) 465, note a

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  • CRIBERG v. Raymond

    370 Mass. 105 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 8, 1976

    See Brown v. Collins, 402 F.2d 209, 212 (D.C. Cir. 1968); Theiss v. Scherer, 396 F.2d 646, 649 (6th Cir. 1968) (applying Ohio law); Johnston v. … See also Borg v. Boas, 231 F.2d 788, 794 (9th Cir. 1956); Zirn v. Cullom, 187 Misc. 241, 243 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1946); Strycker v. Levell & Peterson, 183 Ore. 59, 67 (1948); Rodgers v.

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  • Wilson v. Stump

    310 Mass. 614 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 26, 1942

    Monk v. Everett, 277 Mass. 65, 70 . See also Parker v. Sears, 117 Mass. 513, 522 ; Daley v. Daley, 300 Mass. 17, 21 . Compare G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 203, § 4. … Shaw v. Paine, 12 Allen, 293 , 296, 298. National Webster Bank v. Eldridge, 115 Mass. 424, 427-428 .

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  • H. P. Hood & Sons, Inc. v. Whiting Milk Co.

    345 Mass. 287 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 4, 1963

    The type sizes on comparable portions of the two cartons are generally different. 2 The opinion continued (p. 156), “The plaintiff did not claim the exclusive right to brown labels for awls, but it claimed the exclusive use … of the brown color in the combination which we have described.

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  • Commissioners of Civil Service v. Municipal Court

    369 Mass. 166 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 4, 1975

    In Cohen v. … See Haywood v. Municipal Court of the City of Boston, 359 Mass. 760 (1971); Selectmen of Dartmouth v. Third Dist. Court of Bristol, 359 Mass. 400 (1971); Commissioners of Civil Serv. v.

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  • Ingram v. Cowles

    150 Mass. 155 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 26, 1889

    Boston Loan Co. v. Boston, 137 Mass. 332, 336 . Hittinger v. Westford, 135 Mass. 258, 261 . Stinson v. Boston, 125 Mass. 348, 351 . Huckins v. Boston, 4 Cush. 543 . See Hittinger v. Boston, 139 Mass. 17 . … Furthermore, we hesitate to say that sawing logs into boards is a “branch of manufactures,” and think it doubtful whether something more of a transformation of the raw material is not necessary to bring the employment within

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  • Pickman v. Inhabitants of Peabody

    145 Mass. 480 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 4, 1888

    The first section of the St. of 1850 is as follows: “ The said corporation are hereby empowered to conduct by subterranean pipes, into their own land in Salem and Danvers, the waters of Spring Pond and Brown’s Pond, so called … See Fay v. Salem. & Danvers Aqueduct, 9 Allen, 577 ; Fay v. Salem, & Danvers Aqueduct, 111 Mass. 27 .

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  • Graves v. Jacobs

    90 Mass. 141 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 15, 1864

    there was a special contract between the parties, by the terms of which the said Walter was to do only the least laborious part of the work, and was to be compensated for his services by being supplied with a home, his board … Parmenter v. Coburn, 6 Gray, 509 .

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  • White v. White

    233 Mass. 39 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 20, 1919

    In Wells v. … Brown’s Case, 173 Mass. 498 .

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  • De Toma v. Spector

    323 Mass. 758 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 3, 1949

    Lynn Gas & Electric Co. v. Creditors National Clearing House, 235 Mass. 114 . … Browne v. Fairhall, 218 Mass. 495 . A petition for review is addressed to the discretion of the court. Stillman v. Whittemore, 165 Mass. 234 . Robinson v. Lyndonville Creamery Association, 284 Mass. 396 .

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  • Mehan v. Lowell Electric Light Corp.

    192 Mass. 53 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 17, 1906

    See Somerset & Cambria Railroad v. Galbraith, 109 Penn. St. 82; Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad v. Fowler, 154 Ind. 682 ; Pullman Palace Car Co. v. Laack, 148 Ill. 242 ; Sears v. … Mulhall v. Fallon, 176 Mass. 266 . Welch v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad, 176 Mass. 393 . Boyle v. Columbian Fire Proofing Co. 182 Mass. 93 . The case relied on by the defendant (Hodnett v.

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  • Stachowicz v. Matera

    257 Mass. 283 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 19, 1926

    Brennan v. Standard Oil Co. of New York, 187 Mass. 376 . Sullivan v. Chadwick, 236 Mass. 130 . Gallagher v. Johnson, 237 Mass. 455 . The principle stated in Wiswell v. … Sullivan v. Chadwick, supra. Bullard v. Boston Elevated Railway, 226 Mass. 262 .

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