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  • Kothe v. Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance

    269 Mass. 148 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 25, 1929

    Bennet v. Ætna Ins. Co. 201 Mass. 554, 556 . See also Coggan v. Ward, 215 Mass. 13, 16 ; Abele v. S. A. Meagher Co. 227 Mass. 427, 429, 430 . The case at bar is governed by the principles declared in Johnson v. … See Freeman v. Boynton, 7 Mass. 483, 485 ; Fales v. Russell, 16 Pick. 315 ; Tuttle v. Standish, 4 Allen, 481 ; Hinckley v. Union Pacific Railroad, 129 Mass. 52, 56 ; Munroe v. Weir, 177 Mass. 301, 302 ; Brown v.

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Aldrich v. Aldrich

    49 Mass. 102 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 15, 1844

    And so it was decided in Hearsay v. Bradbury, 9 Mass. 95 . … See Wilmarih v. Burt, 7 Met. 257 . The officer was not bound, at his peril, to determine this question.

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  • Commonwealth v. Finn

    362 Mass. 206 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 23, 1972

    Simmons v. United States, 390 U. S. 377, 384 . Stovall v. Denno, 388 U. S. 293, 302 . … See United States v. Wade, 388 U. S. 28 ; Stovall v. Denno, 388 U. S. 293 ; Simmons v. United States, 390 U. S. 377 ; Cooper v. Picard, 316 F. Supp. 856 (D. Mass.); Commonwealth v. Ross, 361 Mass. 665 .

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  • Oliver v. Pitman

    98 Mass. 46 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 15, 1867

    Oliver, and the order if the board of aldermen thereon, in 1829, do not purport to 1c more than establish the name of Foster Place. … Pettingill v. Porter, 8 Allen, 1 . Parker v. Bennett, 11 Allen, 388 . Nichols v. Luce, 24 Pick. 103 . Brigham v. Smith, 4 Gray, 297 . Leonard v. Leonard, 2 Allen, 543 . In Gayetty v.

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • Household Finance Corp. v. Vogel

    362 Mass. 885 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 9, 1972

    make thirty monthly payments of $46 each, starting September 25, 1965, in payment of the principal plus interest computed at rates which were specified in the note and had been established by the Small Loans Regulatory Board … Buckley v. Railway *886 Exp. Agency, Inc. 323 Mass. 448, 451 . Coonce v. Coonce, 356 Mass. 690, 693 , and cases cited. The order of the Appellate Division dismissing the report is affirmed. Eugene B.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Cerce v. Director of the Division of Employment Security

    333 Mass. 130 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 19, 1955

    Ed.) c. 151A, as amended, from a decision of a judge of a District Court sustaining a decision of the board of review which upheld the action of the director in disqualifying the petitioner from receiving unemployment benefits … The petitioner relies upon our decision in Kerr v. Director of the Division of Employment Security, 332 Mass. 78 .

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • McDonald v. DIRECTOR OF THE DIVISION OF EMP. SEC.

    396 Mass. 468 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 6, 1986

    of review *469 (board). … The board denied his request for review, thus adopting the findings of the review examiner. G.L.c. 151A, § 41 ( c ) (1984 ed.). Schulte v. Director of the Div. of Employment Sec., 376 Mass. 107, 109 (1978).

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  • Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation v. Morgan

    306 Mass. 305 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 25, 1940

    The Appellate Tax Board states that it “was paid from previous earnings of the corporation.” Compare G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 62, § 1 (g). … And it was said in Gray v.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Henderson's Case

    333 Mass. 491 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 1, 1956

    The single member found against the widow, but the reviewing board made an award. From a decree of the Superior Court ordering payment to her of $4,000 in a single sum, the insurer appealed. The facts were agreed. … See Carr v. Burke, ante, 365.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Warren

    161 Mass. 281 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 15, 1894

    From this room was a stairway, enclosed .in a solid board partition, leading to a room above. … The King v. Taylor, 3 B. & C. 502. Jenks v. Turpin, 13 Q. B. D. 505, 514, 515.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Hall-Omar Baking Co. v. Commissioner of Labor & Industries

    344 Mass. 695 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 5, 1962

    Druzik v. Board of Health of Haverhill, 324 Mass. 129,139 . General Elec. Co. v. Kimball Jewelers, Inc. 333 Mass. 665, 675 . … Compare Brown v. Russell, 166 Mass. 14 ; Mayor of Lynn v. Commissioner of Civil Serv. 269 Mass. 410, 414-415 ; Opinion of the Justices, 324 Mass. 736, 740-742 ; McNamara v.

    Cited 33 timesPublished
  • McCarthy v. City of Boston

    266 Mass. 262 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 26, 1929

    The case falls within the principle of the decisions in Cody v. Boston, 258 Mass. 267 ; Chapman v. Boston, 252 Mass. 404 ; Compton v. Revere, 179 Mass. 413 ; Jones v. Collins, 177 Mass. 444 ; Bowman v. … See also O’Neil v. Boston, 263 Mass. 57 . Exceptions overruled.

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Pelletier's Case

    269 Mass. 490 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 31, 1929

    The findings of the member of the board that Pelletier’s injury arose out of and in the course of his employment, and that at the time he was in the course of his duty for the employer, were warranted on the evidence. … Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co. 253 Mass. 574 , Khoury v. Edison Electric Illuminating Co. 265 Mass. 236 , and bring it within the terms of G.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Adams v. Inhabitants of Swansea

    116 Mass. 591 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 9, 1875

    The plaintiff claims that Mary Handy, to recover for whose board at the lunatic hospital this action is brought, had her legal settlement in the present town of Swansea, acquired through the birth of her grandfather Russell … Hall v. Mayo, 97 Mass. 416 . Long v. Colton, ante, 414.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Frawley v. Police Commissioner of Cambridge

    473 Mass. 716 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 4, 2016

    Figgs, supra, quoting School Comm. of Hudson v. Board of Educ., 448 Mass. 565, 575-576 (2007). See Massachusetts Bay Transp. Auth. v. Auditor of the Commonwealth, 430 Mass. 783, 790-791 (2000); Gloucester v. … Hoffer v. Board of Registration in Med., 461 Mass. 451, 457 (2012).

    Cited 35 timesPublished
  • Cook v. Babcock

    61 Mass. 526 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 15, 1851

    Miller v. Travers, 8 Bing. 244; Doe v. Chichester, 4 Dow, 65; Doe v. Hiscocks, 5 Mees. & Welsh. 363; Brown v. Saltonstall, 3 Met. 423 . … King v. Little, 1 Cush. 436 .

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Stock v. City of Boston

    149 Mass. 410 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 20, 1889

    Emery v. Lowell, 104 Mass. 13 . Murphy v. Lowell, 124 Mass. 564 . … Metallic Compression Casting Co. v. Fitchburg Railroad, 109 Mass. 277 .

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  • Houlihan v. Connecticut River Railroad

    164 Mass. 555 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 27, 1895

    Her brothers paid their board to her, twenty dollars per month, and her father’s wages were nine dollars a week. … This state of things was quite different from that which appeared in Hodnett v.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Nichols

    257 Mass. 289 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 19, 1926

    The loans were approved by the board of investment at its next regular meeting. … This decision has been followed in the Supreme Court of the United States: United States v. Northway, 120 U. S. 327 , Evans v. United States, 153 U. S. 584 , Coffin v. United States, 156 U. S. 432 , United States v.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Chandler v. Railroad Commissioners

    141 Mass. 208 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 26, 1886

    In Commonwealth v. … Brainard v.

    Cited 18 timesPublished

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