Case law

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.

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 .

Commonwealth v. Porfidio

288 Mass. 61 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 4, 1934

Commonwealth v. Brown, 121 Mass. 69 . Commonwealth v. Johnson, 199 Mass. 55 . Reasonable limits of cross-examinatian were not exceeded. Commonwealth v. Russ, 232 Mass. 58, 79 . Exceptions overruled.

Dedham Water Co. v. Town of Dedham

395 Mass. 510 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 29, 1985

Registrar of Motor Vehicles v. Board of Appeal on Motor Vehicle Liab. Policies & Bonds, 382 Mass. 580,585 (1981), quoting Board of Educ. v. Assessor of Worcester, 368 Mass. 511, 513 (1975). … Registrar of Motor Vehicles v. Board of Appeal on Motor Vehicle Liab. Policies & Bonds, supra.

Nute v. Boston Co-Operative Building Co.

149 Mass. 465 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 20, 1889

Tobey v. Taunton, 119 Mass. 404 . Gould v. Eastern Railroad, 142 Mass. 85 . … In Killion v.

Hyde v. City of Fall River

189 Mass. 439 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 27, 1905

Davis v. County Commissioners, 153 Mass. 218. Hammond v. County Commissioners, 154 Mass. 509 . Robinson v. Brown, 182 Mass. 266 . … In Munn v.

Attwood v. New England Trust Co.

305 Mass. 472 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 26, 1940

Barstow v. Marsh, 4 Gray, 165 . Borrowscale v. Bosworth, 98 Mass. 34 . Bottum v. Fogle, 105 Mass. 42 . Sawyer v. Yale Iron Works, 116 Mass. 424, 432 . Commonwealth v. Greenlaw, 119 Mass. 208 . Tufts v. … Hale v. Rice, 124 Mass. 292, 297 . Browne v. Hale, 127 Mass. 158 . Goff v. Britton, 182 Mass. 293 . Bath Iron Works, Ltd. v. Savage, 262 Mass. 123, 125 .

McKenzie v. Truesdale

284 Mass. 116 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 18, 1933

The plaintiff was the widowed keeper of a boarding house. Both parties testified. The defendant denied that any promise had existed. … We need cite only the decisions in Kelley v. Riley, 106 Mass. 339 , and Dean v. Skiff, 128 Mass. 174 . The judge was right, also, in refusing to rule in accordance with the requests which were denied.

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 .

Northgate Construction Co. v. State Tax Commission

377 Mass. 205 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 1, 1979

In Commissioner of Labor & Indus. v. Lawrence Hous. … Decision of the Appellate Tax Board affirmed. The details of the turnkey method of project construction are described in Commissioner of Labor & Indus. v. Lawrence Hous. Auth., 358 Mass. 202, 204-205, 207 (1970).

Wojnar v. County of Worcester

261 Mass. 99 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 14, 1927

Anthony v. Adams, 1 Met. 284, 285, 286 . Cavanagh v. Boston, 139 Mass. 426 . Rome v. Worcester, 188 Mass. 307 . Pinkerton v. Randolph, 200 Mass. 24 . Donohue v. Newburyport, 211 Mass. 561, 565 . Brown v. … In Donohue v.

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.

Local 589, Amalgamated Transit Union v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

392 Mass. 407 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 5, 1984

Board of Retirement of Natick, 391 Mass. 760, 763 (1984). … of conciliation and arbitration, or other board or body having similar powers and duties.

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.

Evans v. City of Boston

190 Mass. 525 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 1, 1906

The board of street commissioners of the city of Boston, acting under St. 1897, c. 426, located a new channel for the Neponset Avenue branch of Stony Brook on land of the petitioner, and took “ the right to maintain said … It was held in Atkins v. Boston, 188 Mass. 77 , that under such a taking the city had a right to use the channel for sewerage purposes which includes a right to use it for a house sewer.

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 .

White v. White

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

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

Peabody v. Allen

194 Mass. 345 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 28, 1907

In two cases this court has touched upon the meaning of the phrase in question: Bullard v. Moor, 158 Mass. 418 , and Forbes v. Harrington, 171 Mass. 386 . … Williams v. Henshaw, 11 Pick. 79 . Fanning v. Chadwick, 3 Pick. 420 . W. H. Hastings, for the respondent. L. A. Brown, for the petitioner. Decree affirmed.

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.

Chelsea Dye House & Laundry Co. v. Commonwealth

164 Mass. 350 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 16, 1895

Lincoln v. Commonwealth, ante, 1. No right of any sort was taken in the petitioner’s land. … As has been held in Lincoln v. Commonwealth, decided since the argument, such temporary damage is left by the statute to lie where it falls. See Bacon v. Boston, 154 Mass. 100 .