Legal Opinion
Town of Wellfleet v. Glaze
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 20, 1988Published
1Opinion of the Court
403 Mass. 79 (1988)
525 N.E.2d 1298
TOWN OF WELLFLEET & another[1]
vs.
JOHN W. GLAZE.
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Barnstable.
January 5, 1988.
July 20, 1988.
Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.
Edward W. Kirk for the defendant.
Elizabeth A. Lane for the plaintiffs.
James M. Shannon, Attorney General, & James R. Milkey, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.
LYNCH, J.
The underlying question here is the relative rights of private owners and the public in tidal flats. In August, 1986, the town of Wellfleet…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Storer v. FreemanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1810
- Attorney General v. WilliamsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
- Attorney General v. Jamaica Pond Aqueduct Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1882
- Opinion of the Justices to the House of RepresentativesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
- Boston Waterfront Development Corp. v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
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