Legal Opinion
Boston Edison Co. v. Board of Selectmen of Concord
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 19, 1968PublishedCited by 100 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtReardon, J.
These are closely similar petitions for writs of certiorari brought by Boston Edison Company (Edison) to quash decisions and votes by the boards of selectmen of Concord, Sudbury and Wayland which denied Edison permission to cross certain public ways in those respective towns with its high tension wires. Each of the petitions was reserved and reported by the single justice. This case is the third in a sequence which commenced in 1960 with the efforts of Edison to build a 7.48 mile, 115,000 volt line through the three towns. We are confronted with a certain number of procedural points and a…
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