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  • Taber v. City of New Bedford

    135 Mass. 162 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 20, 1883

    Brimmer v. Boston, 102 Mass. 19 . … Brimmer v.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Daignault v. Berkshire Street Railway Co.

    277 Mass. 227 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 1, 1931

    Casey v. Boston Elevated Railway, 197 Mass. 440 . Adams v. Boston Elevated Railway, 219 Mass. 515 . O’Callaghan v. Boston Elevated Railway, 249 Mass. 43 . Tobin v. Nahant & Lynn Street Railway, 260 Mass. 512 . … Welsh v. Concord, Maynard & Hudson Street Railway, 223 Mass. 184,186 . Tobin v. Nahant & Lynn Street Railway, 260 Mass. 512, 514 .

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • C. B. Ensign & Co. v. Forrest

    251 Mass. 296 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 24, 1925

    In Buzzell v. … Board of Education, 54 Vroom, 446 . The recent case of Manker v. American Savings Bank & Trust Go. 131 Wash. 430 is not in conflict.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Broadway National Bank v. Baker

    176 Mass. 294 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 9, 1900

    Howell v. Manglesdorf, 33 Kans. 194 . Abbey v. W. B. Grimes Dry Goods Co. 44 Kans. 415 . United States National Bank v. Magnuson, 57 Kans. 573 . Ball v. Reese, 58 Kans. 614 . In Hancock National Bank v. Farnum, 176 U. … Brown v. Trail, 89 Fed. Rep. 641, 645. Whitman v. Oxford National Bank, 176 U. S. 559 .

    Cited 18 timesPublished
  • Hills v. Simonds

    125 Mass. 536 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 18, 1878

    In Merriam v. … Cattlin v. Brown, 11 Hare, 372. In re Moseley's trusts, L. R. 11 Eq. 499, 504. C. R. Train & J. O. Teele, for the defendant. R. M. Morse, Jr. & R. Stone, Jr., (C. P. Greenough with them,) for the plaintiff.

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • Wilkins v. City of Haverhill

    468 Mass. 86 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 9, 2014

    Kindred Healthcare, Inc., 466 Mass. 779, 783 (2014), quoting Board of Educ. v. Assessor of Worcester, 368 Mass. 511, 513 (1975). In relevant part, G. … L. c. 15, § 1G (requiring establishment of school board advisory council on parent and community education and involvement); 603 Code Mass.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Stow v. Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation

    336 Mass. 337 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 6, 1957

    Ed.) c. 197, § 10, as amended (or under other provisions of c. 197), do or do not exist, would terminate and “settle . . . the controversy submitted for decision” by the petition (compare Brown v. … Jennings v. Murphy, 325 Mass. 314, 319 . Cohen v. Santoianni, 330 Mass. 187, 192 , and cases cited.

    Cited 23 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Hoff

    315 Mass. 551 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 28, 1944

    Commonwealth v. Kenney, 12 Met. 235 , 237. Commonwealth v. Brown, 121 Mass. 69, 80 . Warner v. Fuller, 245 Mass. 520, 528 . Commonwealth v. Hamel, 264 Mass. 564, 569 . Commonwealth v. Hebert, 264 Mass. 571, 578 . … Castano v. Leone, 278 Mass. 429, 431 . Ashapa v. Reed, 280 Mass. 514, 516 . Codman v. Beane, 312 Mass. 570, 574 .

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • French v. Ballantyne

    303 Mass. 387 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 28, 1939

    The case of Davis v. … In Brown v. Floersheim Mercantile Co. 206 Mass. 373 , in pointing out the difference between the actual possession required of a person summoned as trustee under what is now G. L. (Ter.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Roth v. Adams

    185 Mass. 341 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 31, 1904

    Skally v. Shute, 132 Mass. 367 . Smith v. McEnany, 170 Mass. 26 . … Foster v. Peyser, 9 Cush. 242 , 246. Welles v. Castles, 3 Gray, 323 , 326. Szathmary v. Adams, 166 Mass. 145 .

    Cited 16 timesPublished
  • Child v. New York & New England Railroad

    129 Mass. 170 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 5, 1880

    Haven v. Grand Junction Railroad, 109 Mass. 88 . … Wilcox v. Fairhaven Bank, 7 Allen, 270 . Virginia v. Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, 32 Md. 501, 539 . Ketchum, v. Duncan, 96 U. S. 659, 662 . Union Trust Co. v. Monticello & Port Jervis Railroad, 63 N. Y. 311 .

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Waterman v. City Council of Gloucester

    338 Mass. 284 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 8, 1959

    Klefbeck v. Dous, 302 Mass. 383, 387 . Sanborn v. Brunette, 315 Mass. 231, 237 . … Treasurer & Receiver Gen. 237 Mass. 422, 433 , Byfield v. Newton, 247 Mass. 46, 53 , Marcus v. Board of St. Commrs. 252 Mass. 331, 333 , indicates that the appropriation was in fact voted prior to the taking.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Emerson v. Deming

    304 Mass. 478 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 6, 1939

    Rowland v. Hackel, 243 Mass. 160 . Bascombe v. Inferrera, 271 Mass. 296 . Caragulian v. Rudd, 282 Mass. 260 . Waitzkin v. Glazer, 283 Mass. 86 . Sandler v. Green, 287 Mass. 404 . … Gillingham v. Brown, 178 Mass. 417, 424 . Wendell v. Clark, 240 Mass. 562 . United States v. Wilder, 13 Wall. 254 . Freiberg v. Pierce, 83 Fed. (2d) 961.

    Cited 20 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Odgren

    483 Mass. 41 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 4, 2019

    Brown , 477 Mass. 805 , 815-816, 81 N.E.3d 1173 (2017), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 139 S. … Keown , 478 Mass. at 242 , 84 N.E.3d 820 , quoting Commonwealth v. Sylvia , 456 Mass. 182 , 192, 921 N.E.2d 968 (2010). See Brown , 474 Mass. at 588 , 52 N.E.3d 137 .

    Cited 16 timesPublished
  • Bowditch v. Jordan

    131 Mass. 321 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 30, 1881

    Loring v. Eliot, 16 Gray, 568 . … Loring v. Eliot, ubi supra. It appears in this case that Mrs. Hannah Dearborn and Helen M.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Pioneer Liquor Mart, Inc. v. Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission

    350 Mass. 1 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 16, 1965

    L. c. 30A, § 14, for review of the board’s decision. … See Building Inspector of Acton v. Board of Appeals of Acton, 348 Mass. 453, 456-457 , and cases cited. 4. It is not necessary to recite in detail the facts in the companion cases (see fn. 1). We have reviewed them.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Moushegian v. Sheppard

    279 Mass. 49 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 31, 1932

    Brown v. Corey, 134 Mass. 249 . But those appointed executors who succeeded in getting the will allowed did not bear personally their expenses for counsel fees. … Bailey v. Bailey, 166 Mass. 226 . Graham v. Lord, 170 Mass. 1 . Clarke v. Bacall, 171 Mass. 292 . See Boyle v. Gould, 164 Mass. 144 .

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Lynch v. Swan

    167 Mass. 510 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 24, 1897

    Quinn v. Perham, 151 Mass. 162 . Moynihan v. Allyn, 162 Mass. 270 . … Lindsey v. Leighton, ubi supra. Leydecker v. Brintnall, 158 Mass. 292 . Wilcox v. Zane, ante, 302.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. De La Cruz

    405 Mass. 269 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 3, 1989

    See also Commonwealth v. Aponte, 391 Mass. 494 (1984) (grand jury selection). I would take judicial notice of the unfortunate prevalence of prejudice against Hispanics in our Commonwealth. See Commonwealth v. … Ct. 103, 121 (1980) (Brown, J., concurring); P.J. Liacos, Massachusetts Evidence 29-34 (5th ed. 1981 & Supp. 1985), and cases cited. See also Rosales-Lopez v. United States, 451 U.S. 182, 192 (1981).

    Abrogated on other grounds by Commonwealth v. Colon, 482 Mass. 162 (2019)Cited 23 timesPublished
  • Rizzo v. Ahern

    278 Mass. 5 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 28, 1931

    low gutter and turn to drive along Pond Street in the direction from which the plaintiff came; that until he reached the inside edge of the sidewalk he could not see along Pond Street in that direction because of a high board … Anger v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway, 231 Mass. 163, 165 .

    Cited 7 timesPublished

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