Case law

Martin v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

216 Mass. 361 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 9, 1914

The plaintiff’s married daughter and the latter’s little boy boarded the rear vestibule and entered the car. … Sauvan v. Citizens’ Electric Street Railway, 197 Mass. 176 .

Dinardi v. Herook

328 Mass. 572 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 3, 1952

Curley v. Mahan, 288 Mass. 369, 374 (four or five seconds). Adamian v. Messerlian, 292 Mass. 275 (“momentary”). Folan v. Price, 293 Mass. 76 (ten seconds, after hearing a grating noise at the rear wheel). Woods v. … Brown, 286 Mass. 65 (looking from road and taking both hands from wheel for twenty-five seconds to light a cigarette at thirty-five miles an hour). Copeland v.

Scott v. Lieberman

284 Mass. 325 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 25, 1933

Hendler v. Coffey, 278 Mass. 339, 340 . Bryne v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. 269 Mass. 130, 131 . … Merrimac Chemical Co. v. Moore, 279 Mass. 147, 152 . So ordered.

Sears v. Crocker

184 Mass. 586 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 6, 1904

Attorney Greneral v. Metropolitan Railroad, 125 Mass. 515 . Pierce v. Drew, 136 Mass. 75 . Lincoln v. Commonwealth, 164 Mass. 1 . Howe v. West End Street Railway, 167 Mass. 46 . White v. … Mahoney v. Boston, 171 Mass. 427, 429 . Browne v. Turner, 176 Mass. 9, 13 . But it does not purport to give a private proprietary right to anything more than the subways and tunnels-as structures.

New England Bond & Mortgage Co. v. Brock

270 Mass. 107 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 21, 1930

Harrington v. Ward, 9 Mass. 251 . Compare Robertson v. Fleming, 4 Macq. H. of L. Cas. (Sc.) 167. In the early case, Catlin v. … A case directly in point though not binding as authority is Ware v. Brown, 2 Bond. (U. S. C. C.) 267. It follows that the judge was in error.

Snow v. Sheldon

126 Mass. 332 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 24, 1879

J., in Chapman v. Briggs, 11 Allen, 546 . It has been decided that this provision of the statute applies to personal property only. Bancroft v. Curtis, 108 Mass. 47 . … Chapman v. Foster, 6 Allen, 136 . Feran v. Rudolphsen, 106 Mass. 471 .

City of Newburyport v. Davis

209 Mass. 126 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 19, 1911

Chelmsford Co. v. Demarest, 7 Gray, 1 , 3. Middlesex Manuf. Co. v. Lawrence, 1 Allen, 339 . Lexington & West Cambridge Railroad v. Elwell, 8 Allen, 371 , Singer Manuf. Co. v. … O’Brien v. Murphy, 175 Mass. 253 .

Gollis v. Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co.

254 Mass. 157 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 1, 1925

Anderson v. Boston Elevated Railway, supra. The rule established in Flanagan v. Boston Elevated Railway, supra, and in Martin v. Boston Elevated Railway, supra, is applicable to the case at bar. In Davey v. … Greenfield & Turner’s Falls Street Railway, 177 Mass. 106 , the plaintiff was not fairly in the car, she was in the act of boarding it when it started. In Nichols v.

Bigham v. Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation

371 Mass. 270 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 2, 1976

Johnson v. McMahon, 344 Mass. 348, 354 (1962). … West v. Selectmen of Yarmouth, 345 Mass. 547 (1963). Cf. Brown v. Boston, 353 Mass. 740 (1968). There has been no sale in the case at bar.

Commonwealth v. Lennon

463 Mass. 520 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 15, 2012

See Commonwealth v. Brown, 449 Mass. 747, 768 (2007); Commonwealth v. DelValle, 443 Mass. 782, 793-794 (2005); Commonwealth v. Erderly, 430 Mass. 149, 152 (1999); Commonwealth v. James, 424 Mass. 770, 789 (1997). … Commonwealth v. Groome, 435 Mass. 201, 220 (2001), quoting Commonwealth v. McLeod, 394 Mass. 727, 738 , cert. denied sub nom. Aiello v. Massachusetts, 474 U.S. 919 (1985). See Commonwealth v.

United States Gypsum Co. v. Mystic River Bridge Authority

329 Mass. 130 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 12, 1952

Boston & Maine Railroad, 3 Cush. 107 , 113-114, result from the performance of any authorized act by an official or a board empowered to undertake and complete some public work. … Quinn v. Mayor & Aldermen of Springfield, 233 Mass. 595, 597-598 . King v. Board of Aldermen of Springfield, 247 Mass. 548, 551 .

116 Commonwealth Condominium Trust v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co.

433 Mass. 373 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 13, 2001

During the term of the policy, Richard Gleicher, an owner of a unit at 116 Commonwealth Avenue, in Boston, filed an action in the Land Court against the trust’s board of trustees. … Turcotte v. DeWitt, 333 Mass. 389, 392 (1955). See Travelers Ins. Co. v. Waltham Indus. Lab. Corp., 722 F. Supp. 814, 828 (D.

Story v. Russell

157 Mass. 152 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 17, 1892

In Hussey v. … See Sheppard v. Taylor, 5 Pet. 675, 712 ; Poland v. Brig Spartan, 1 Ware, 134 ; Skolfield v. Potter, 2 Ware, 394 , 402.

Royce v. Commissioner of Correction

390 Mass. 425 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 10, 1983

The plaintiff requested a hearing before the D.S.U. classification board and was given a hearing date of *427 January 28, 1982. … Hewitt v. Helms, supra at 476 n.8; Carlo v. Gunter, 520 F.2d 1293, 1297 (1st Cir. 1975).

Urann v. Coates

109 Mass. 581 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 15, 1872

See cases cited in Browne on St. of Frauds, §§ 98, 99. It is not essential that the memorandum relied on should have been delivered to any one as a declaration of trust. … Bunn v. Winthrop, 1 Johns. Ch. 329 . Perry on Trusts, § 103, and cases cited.

Commonwealth v. Melville

160 Mass. 307 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 3, 1894

By St. 1885, c. 313, a board of registration in pharmacy was established, and it was provided by § 3 how existing dealers should be registered. … Commonwealth v. Chiovaro, 129 Mass. 489, 498 .

State Tax Commission v. New England Merchants National Bank of Boston

355 Mass. 417 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 6, 1969

The cases were heard in the Appellate Tax Board on stipulations. The trusts were established under the wills of Ralph T. Entwistle and Manuel H. Lombard, residents of Massachusetts. … Compare Commissioner of Corps. & Taxn. v. Baker, supra, at 611 . Nor is it dependent upon the trustee exercising its discretion. Compare State Tax Commn. v. Blinder, 336 Mass. 698 .

Buchanan v. Director of the Division of Employment Security

393 Mass. 329 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 19, 1984

The board of review upheld the director’s determination. … See, e.g., Lowell v.

Cerricola v. Darena

266 Mass. 267 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 26, 1929

At the time of the letting to the plaintiff’s father, the roof was floored with boards, and was surrounded by a fence which followed the edge of the roof, passed around the *269 light shaft, and ended against the penthouse … Eisenhauer v. Ceppi, 238 Mass. 458 . Carroll v. Intercolonial Club of Boston, 243 Mass. 380 . Landers v. Brooks, 258 Mass. 1 . See also Noonan v. O’Hearn, 216 Mass. 583 .

Zaniboni v. Massachusetts Trial Court

465 Mass. 1013 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 17, 2013

See, e.g., Globe Newspaper Co. v. Massachusetts Bay Transp. Auth. … Commonwealth, 397 Mass. 336, 339 (1986), quoting Brown v. Guerrier, 390 Mass. 631, 632 (1983), we decline to do so here.