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  • Attorney General v. Haverhill Gas Light Co.

    215 Mass. 394 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 26, 1913

    It enjoys public rights in the streets, which are derived from the Commonwealth, through action of the board of aldermen under authority of the Legislature. … Brown, 17 Wall. 445, 450 . Union Trust & Savings Bank v. Kinloch Long Distance Telephone Co. 258 Ill. 202 . It is hardly necessary to say that there is nothing at variance with this principle in Selectmen of Amesbury v.

    Cited 29 timesPublished
  • Asker v. Asker

    8 Mass. App. Ct. 634 · Massachusetts Appeals Court · Nov 8, 1979

    Board of Appeals of Carver, 369 Mass. 804, 811 (1976). The record is scant but reflects in this respect the somewhat unusual course that the litigation took in the Probate Court. … Brown v. Bulkley, 11 Cush. 168 , 169 (1853). Although later proceedings culminating in the entry of a final decree are contemplated (see G.

    Cited 19 timesPublished
  • Belezos v. Board of Selectmen of Hingham, Massachusetts

    District Court, D. Massachusetts · Mar 29, 2019

    2016 Board of Selectman minutes). … v.

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  • Delva v. Brigham & Women's Hospital, Inc.

    72 Mass. App. Ct. 766 · Massachusetts Appeals Court · Oct 3, 2008

    Wynn & Wynn, P.C. v. Massachusetts Commn. … See also Goldman v. First Natl.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Kelley v. Action for Boston Community Development, Inc.

    419 F. Supp. 511 · District Court, D. Massachusetts · Aug 16, 1976

    See also Simard v. Board of Education of Town of Groton, 473 F.2d 988 (2d Cir. 1973); Keene v. Rogers, 316 F.Supp. 217 (D.Me.1970). … Accord, Simard v. Board of Education of Town of Groton, 473 F.2d 988, 993 (2d Cir. 1973).

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Duffee v. Call

    123 Mass. 318 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 17, 1877

    Gilbreth v. Brown, 15 Mass. 178 , 180. Lombard v. Oliver, 5 Gray, 8 . Cardival v. Smith, 109 Mass. 158, 160 . And a person summoned as trustee of the principal defends nt has the like right. Gen. Sts. e. 129, § 9. … Brown v. Seymour, 1 Pick. 32 .

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Hernandez v. Massachusetts

    234 F. Supp. 3d 316 · District Court, D. Massachusetts · Jan 19, 2017

    Brown v. Ruane, 630 F.3d 62, 67 (1st Cir. 2011) (quoting John v. Russo, 561 F.3d 88, 96 (1st Cir. 2009)). … Brown v. Ruano, 630 F.3d 62, 67 (1st Cir. 2011) (alteration in original)(quoting Williams v. Taylor, 529 U.S. 362, 413 , 120 S.Ct. 1495 , 146 L.Ed.2d 389 (2000)).

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Williams

    76 Mass. App. Ct. 489 · Massachusetts Appeals Court · Mar 31, 2010

    See Commonwealth v. … The propriety of air drying blood evidence and storing it in brown paper bags to preserve it is fairly well recognized as an appropriate method by which to preserve such evidence. See generally Williams v.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Marple

    26 Mass. App. Ct. 150 · Massachusetts Appeals Court · Jun 28, 1988

    Commonwealth v. … Compare Commonwealth v. Drew, 397 Mass. at 77 ; United States v. Ospina, 739 F.2d 448, 452 (9th Cir.), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 887 (1984). But cf. Commonwealth v. Keizer, 377 Mass. 264, 271 (1979). See United States v.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Bilodeau v. Maffei

    309 Mass. 237 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 28, 1941

    Wheeler v. Tarullo, 237 Mass. 306, 309 , and cases cited. We are of opinion that there was no error in this instruction. The case of Brown v. … Compare Gariety v. Fleming, 121 Kans. 42, 44 ; Thompson v. Ellsworth, 39 Mich. 719, 723 ; Bailey v. Warner, 118 Fed. 395, 397 ; Stoecker v. Nathanson, 70 L. R. A. 667.

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Salisbury Land & Improvement Co. v. Commonwealth

    215 Mass. 371 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 19, 1913

    The impression created by looking at the plan of the taking was not inaccurately described in argument as a “checker board” effect. … See also Hairston v. Danville & Western Railway, 208 U. S. 598 ; Sanborn v. Van Duyne, 90 Minn. 215 ; Brown v. Gerald, 100 Maine, 351.

    Cited 43 timesPublished
  • Weatherbee v. New York Life Insurance

    182 Mass. 342 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 26, 1902

    Weatherbee, the husband, assigned the policy to one Brown as security for money lent on the faith of it, and Brown assigned it to Forbes, as security for money lent at the same time by Forbes to Brown. … Continental National Bank v. National Bank of the Commonwealth, 50 N. Y. 575, 583 . Preston v. Mann, 25 Conn. 118 . Pilcher v. New York Ins. Co. 33 La. An. 322.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • In re Eastern Dredging Co.

    138 F. 942 · District Court, D. Massachusetts · Jun 6, 1905

    Ed. 73 ; Endner v. Greco (D. C.) 3 Fed. 411, 413 ; The Wilmington (D. C.) 48 Fed. 566, 567 ; McMaster v. Dredge (D. C.) 95 Fed. 832 . … No. 10,543, affirmed on appeal, Swift v. Brown-ell, 1 Holmes, 467 , Fed. Cas. No. 13,695.

    Cited 17 timesPublished
  • Rossetti v. Curran

    891 F. Supp. 36 · District Court, D. Massachusetts · Jun 21, 1995

    See Albert v. Montgomery, 732 F.2d 865 (11th Cir. 1984); 31 United States v. … See, Brown, Comment, The Double Jeopardy Clause: Refining the Constitutional Proscription Against Successive Criminal Prosecutions, 19 UCLA L.Rev. 804, 831-32 (1972) ("In Ashe , because the jury could have grounded its decision

    Cited 4 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Kruah

    47 Mass. App. Ct. 341 · Massachusetts Appeals Court · Jul 21, 1999

    She complained about the *343 defendant’s conduct to Thomas Grupee, president of the Liberian Community Association of Massachusetts and a member of UNICO’s board of directors. … See Commonwealth v. Brown, 394 Mass. 510, 515 (1985). In the circumstances, it was within the judge’s discretion to admit evidence of his refusal as an adoptive admission by silence.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Smith v. Bowker Torrey Co.

    207 F. 967 · District Court, D. Massachusetts · Sep 24, 1913

    BROWN, District Judge. The claimant seeks to charge the corporation, the Bowker Torrey Company, with the debt of a copartnership whose business was taken over by the corporation. … In Forbes v.

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Boston & Albany Railroad v. Richardson

    135 Mass. 473 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 10, 1883

    Throughout, Brown was acting as the agent and on behalf of the defendants. … To the same effect is Brown v. Howard Ins. Co. 42 Md. 384. These cases differ from the case before us in the fact that, at the time the forgery was discovered, the first transferee still held the shares.

    Cited 22 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Harmon

    410 Mass. 425 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 18, 1991

    The dungarees were wet, and had a brown stain on one leg. The defendant indicated that the pants belonged to him. … The assistant district attorney stated that he told Otero that he would request that Otero’s parole board hearing be moved up from mid-December to late November.

    Cited 26 timesPublished
  • Manley v. Geagan

    105 Mass. 445 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 15, 1870

    Stone v. Symmes, 18 Pick. 467 . Curtis v. Brown, 5 Cush. 488 . Furbish v. Goodnow, 98 Mass. 296 . Browne on St. of Frauds, §§ 172-174. Judgment on the verdict for the defendant.

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Dellinger

    383 Mass. 780 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 25, 1981

    Within three minutes the brown automobile emerged, following the route of the UPS truck, and the trooper stopped the automobile. … The brown automobile was searched. On and under the seats were a black ski mask, two pairs of brown work gloves, a pair of binoculars, and a screw driver.

    Cited 15 timesPublished

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