Cape Cod Steamship Co. v. Selectmen of Provincetown

Material facts disclosed by the agreed statement of facts are these: For the past thirty years, during the summer season, the corporate petitioner has operated *66passenger steamships between Boston and Provincetown, and for the past twenty-five years it has berthed its steamships at “Town Wharf,” now so called, in Provincetown. There is at that town no other wharf with sufficient depth of water to dock these vessels. The individual petitioners are citizens and taxpayers in Provincetown. The individual respondents are the selectmen of that town. By St. 1928, c. 253, the town was authorized to…