Legal Opinion
Gilliatt v. City of Quincy
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 17, 1935PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
This is a petition by ten or more taxpayers under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 40, § 53, seeking to restrain the expenditure of money to carry out orders and votes of the city council purporting to change the wards of the city of Quincy (hereafter called the city) from six to eight and to increase the number of precincts. The case was submitted upon an agreed statement of facts. Thus it appears that the city was governed by St. 1888, c. 347, and acts in amendment thereto, as its first city charter, until in November, 1916, it adopted a new city charter, fully operative on the first Monday of the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Safford v. City of LowellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1926
- Dooling v. City CouncilMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
- Cunningham v. Mayor of CambridgeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- Fitzgerald v. Mayor of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1915
- Sullivan v. LawsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1929
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Kravetz v. LipofskyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co. v. Mayor of Fall RiverMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1941
- Quinlan v. City of CambridgeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1946
- Shea v. Inspector of BuildingsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
- Furlong v. AyersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1940
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