Mayor & Aldermen of Worcester v. Board of Railroad Commissioners
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The FIRST CASE was a petition filed by the mayor and aldermen of the city of Worcester, for a writ of certiorari to quash certain proceedings of the board of railroad commissioners.
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The FIRST CASE was a petition filed by the mayor and aldermen of the city of Worcester, for a writ of certiorari to quash certain proceedings of the board of railroad commissioners. The petition represented that by § 11 of St. 1871, c. 343, entitled “ An Act to provide for a Union Passenger Station, and the removal of railroad tracks from certain public ways and grounds in the city of Worcester,” the Norwich and Worcester Railroad Company, the Providence and Worcester Railroad Company, the Worcester and Nashua Railroad Company and the Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad Corporation were…
1Opinion of the Court
Gray, C. J.*
These suits involve the validity of the proceedings of the board of railroad commissioners, under the St. of 1871, c. 343, § 11, in locating and defining the course, grade and mode of construction of a viaduct, to be made by the Worcester and Nashua Railroad Company and three other railroad corporations jointly, from a point on the line of the Worcester and Nashua Railroad, over Bridge Street, Mechanic Street and Front Street, to a point on the line of the Boston and Albany Railroad near the union passenger station in the city of Worcester, without application to or consent of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Mayor of Worcester v. Norwich & Worcester RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
3Cited by12 opinions
- Codman v. CrockerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- Morgan's Louisiana & T. R. & S. S. Co. v. Railroad CommissionSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1902
- Ingelson v. OlsonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1937
- Worcester & Nashua Railroad v. Railroad CommissionersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
- In re Mayor of NorthamptonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
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