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  • Assessors of Springfield v. Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation

    321 Mass. 186 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 5, 1947

    This is an appeal by the board of assessors of the city of Springfield (herein called the assessors) from *187 a decision of the Appellate Tax Board (herein called the board) under G. L. (Ter. … Commonwealth v. Dejardin, 126 Mass. 46, 47 . Babcock Davis Corp. v. Paine, 240 Mass. 438, 440-441 . Medford Trust Co. v. Priggen Steel Garage Co. 273 Mass. 349, 353 . Wellesley College v.

    Cited 19 timesPublished
  • Gage v. Town of Egremont

    409 Mass. 345 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 19, 1991

    Board of Appeals of Fall River, 319 Mass. 341 (1946), and the Appeals Court opinion in SCIT, Inc. v. Planning Bd. of Braintree, 19 Mass. App. Ct. 101 (1984). … Burnham v. Board of Appeals of Gloucester, 333 Mass. 114, 118 [1955].” MacGibbon v. Board of Appeals of Duxbury, 356 Mass. 635, 638 (1970). The reasoning of SCIT, Inc. v.

    Limited by Bernstein v. Planning Board of Stockbridge, 76 Mass. App. Ct. 759 (2010)Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. DiBenedetto

    94 Mass. App. Ct. 682 · Massachusetts Appeals Court · Jan 11, 2019

    Commonwealth v. Brown, 367 Mass. 24, 28 (1975). … Brown, 367 Mass. at 28. See Latino v.

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Brewer v. Proprietors of the Boston Theatre

    104 Mass. 378 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 15, 1870

    Morse, Jr., for the defendants, in support of the demurrers, cited Foss v. Harbottle, 2 Hare, 461; Mozley v. Alston, 1 Phillips, 790 ; Allen v. Curtis, 26 Conn. 456 ; Hersey v. Veazie, 24 Maine, 9; Peabody v. … I. 312; Allen v. Curtis, 26 Conn. 456 *397 Hersey v. Veazie, 24 Maine, 9 ; March v. Eastern Railroad Co. 40 N. H. 548, 567; Robinson v. Smith, 3 Paige, 222, 233 ; Peabody v. Flint, 6 Allen, 52 .

    Cited 98 timesPublished
  • Town of Amherst v. Attorney General

    398 Mass. 793 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 15, 1986

    See Grace v. Brookline, 379 Mass. 43, 49 (1979). See also Crall v. Leominster, 362 Mass. 95, 101-102 (1972); Brown v. Carlisle, 336 Mass. 147, 148 (1957). … Commonwealth v. Boronas, 285 Mass. 321, 323 (1934). See John Donnelly & Sons v. Outdoor Advertising Bd., 369 Mass. 206, 212 (1975); Boston Police Patrolmen’s Ass’n v.

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • R. H. White Co. v. Murphy

    310 Mass. 510 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 2, 1942

    V, Title 29, § 151. National Licorice Co. v. National Labor Relations Board, 309 U. S. 350, 362 . … Oughton v. National Labor Relations Board, 118 Fed. (2d) 486, 490.

    Cited 29 timesPublished
  • Assessors of Boston v. Neal

    311 Mass. 192 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 30, 1942

    Miner v. Pingree, 110 Mass. 47 . Dunham v. Lowell, 200 Mass. 468 . … Compare Sanborn v. Flagler, 9 Allen, 474 , 477-478; McGovern v. Hern, 153 Mass. 308, 310 ; Tobin v. Larkin, 183 Mass. 389, 391 ; Merrill v. Paige, 229 Mass. 511, 514 ; Lowell v.

    Cited 15 timesPublished
  • Assessors of Boston v. World Wide Broadcasting Foundation of Massachusetts, Inc.

    317 Mass. 598 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 5, 1945

    As matter of law, the board could consider that undisputed fact evolved from the statements of counsel and decide the issue accordingly, since it took the place of evidence. Dwyer v. Dwyer, 239 Mass. 188, 190 . Kane v. … Peck v. Elliott, 79 Fed. 10, 13-14 . Bornstein v. District Grand Lodge No. 4, Independent Order B’nai B’rith, 2 Cal. App. 624, 627 . Demp-ster Manuf. Co. v. Downs, 126 Iowa, 80, 83 .

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Porn

    196 Mass. 326 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 15, 1907

    Commonwealth v. Porn, 195 Mass. 443, 446 . Both medical and popular lexicographers define midwife as a female obstetrician, and midwifery as the practice of obstetrics. B. … Hewitt v. Charier, 16 Pick. 353 . Brown v. Russell, 166 Mass. 14, 23 . Decie v. Brown, 167 Mass. 290 . Hawker v. New York, 170 U. S. 189 . Reetz v. Michigan, 188 U. S. 505 . Meffert v. Packer, 195 U. S. 625 .

    Cited 22 timesPublished
  • Worcester Masonic Charity & Educational Ass'n v. Assessors of Worcester

    326 Mass. 409 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 3, 1950

    These are appeals by a taxpayer from a decision of the Appellate Tax Board upholding the board of assessors of Worcester in its refusal to abate taxes assessed for the years 1947 and 1948 upon real estate owned by the taxpayer … There was no error of law in the conclusion of the board. The burden of proving the right to an exemption was on the taxpayer. Boston Chamber of Commerce v. Assessors of Boston, 315 Mass. 712, 716 .

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Boardman v. Jackson

    119 Mass. 161 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 19, 1875

    Brewer v. Stevens, 13 Allen, 346 . Pratt v. Pond, 5 Allen, 59 . Metcalf v. Cady, 8 Allen, 587 . Bassett v. Brown, 100 Mass. 355 . Suter v. Matthews, 115 Mass. 253 . Swamscott Machine Co. v.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Arno v. Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission

    377 Mass. 83 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 12, 1979

    Board of Educ. of Ewing, 330 U.S. 1 (1947). … Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962). 18 Lemon v. Kurtzman, 403 U.S. 602, 612 (1971). 19 Roemer v. Board of Pub. Works of Maryland, 426 U.S. 736, 746 (1976). 20 See discussion supra at 87-89. See also Horne v.

    Cited 18 timesPublished
  • Cox v. Wiley

    183 Mass. 410 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 22, 1903

    Hunt v. Brown, 146 Mass. 253, 255 . Riley v. Hale, 158 Mass. 240, 246 . Gilmore v. Williams, 162 Mass. 351 . … The facts averred in the pleadings, and the evidence introduced at the trial in the Superior Court, bring this case within the principles stated in Boston Blower Co. v. Brown, 149 Mass. 421, 430, 431 .

    Cited 17 timesPublished
  • South Middlesex Opportunity Council, Inc. v. Town of Framingham

    752 F. Supp. 2d 85 · District Court, D. Massachusetts · Sep 9, 2010

    Ass’n v. … Inc. v.

    Cited 27 timesPublished
  • Forsythe v. Sun Life Financial, Inc.

    417 F. Supp. 2d 100 · District Court, D. Massachusetts · Jan 19, 2006

    Harhen v. Brown, 431 Mass. 838 , 730 N.E.2d 859, 865 (2000); see also In re Mut. Funds Inv. Litig., 384 F.Supp.2d 845, 847 (D.Md.2005); In re Eaton Vance Mut. … The plaintiffs argue that the Supreme Court's recent decision in Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Educ., 544 U.S. 167 , 125 S.Ct. 1497 , 161 L.Ed.2d 361 (2005) has limited the holding in Sandoval .

    Cited 27 timesPublished
  • Hickey v. Baine

    195 Mass. 446 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 15, 1907

    Reynolds v. Boyal Arcanum, 192 Mass. 150 . … Oliver v. Hopkins, 144 Mass. 175 . Karcher v. Knights of Honor, 187 Mass. 368 . Chamberlain v. Lincoln, 129 Mass. 70 .

    Cited 20 timesPublished
  • Browne v. Merkert Enterprises, Inc.

    8 Mass. L. Rptr. 309 · Massachusetts Superior Court · Mar 30, 1998

    Bowne of Boston, Inc. v. Levine & Merrill Corp., 7 Mass. L. Rptr. 685 , 1997 WL 781444 (Mass. Super.), citing Whitinsville Plaza, Inc. v. Kotseas, 378 Mass. 85, 102-03 (1979); Blackwell v. E.M. … See New England Overall Co., Inc. v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • United States Trust Co. v. Commonwealth

    348 Mass. 378 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 28, 1965

    As was said in Baker v. … Pfister & Vogel Co. v. Fitzpatrick Shoe Co. 197 Mass. 277, 278 . Cawley v. Jean, 218 Mass. 263, 270 .

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Clark v. Story

    208 Mass. 36 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 28, 1911

    White v. Brown, 2 Cush. 412 . Mills v. Day, 206 Mass. 530 . They have been charged only with what they actually received. Of this they have no right to complain. 2. … Adams v. Brown, 7 Cush. 220 . Grerrish v. Black, 104 Mass. 400 . Waterman v. Curtis, 26 Conn. 241 .

    Cited 5 timesPublished
  • General Mills, Inc. v. Commissioner of Revenue

    440 Mass. 154 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 15, 2003

    See Becton, Dickinson & Co. v. Department of Revenue, 383 Mass. 786, 789 (1981). The board declined to make such a finding, citing F.W. Woolworth Co. v. … Commissioner of Revenue v. Dupee, supra, quoting Rev. Rul. 79-250, 1979- 2 C.B. 156 . There was ample evidence to support the board’s findings.

    Cited 8 timesPublished

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