Legal Opinion

Commonwealth v. Chase

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided October 15, 1806PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

This was a certiorari to the Sessions, brought to quash the proceedings relative to the laying out a highway in Shirley, upon the petition of Chase Al. The Court of Sessions, without * notice to the town, adjudged the way prayed [ * 171 ] ,for to be of common convenience and necessity, and appointed a committee to lay it out. And for this cause the

Proceedings were quashed. (a)

Commonwealth vs. Peters, 3 Mass. Rep. 229. —Commonwealth vs. Cambridge, 4 Mass. Rep. 627. — Same vs. Same, 7 Mass Rep. 158 — Commonwealth vs. Coombs, 2 Mass. Rep. 489.— Commonwealth vs. Great Barrington, 6 Mass. Rep. 492.

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. CoombsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1807
  2. Commonwealth v. Inhabitants of Great BarringtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1810
  3. Commonwealth v. PetersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1807

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Sprague v. NorwayCalifornia Supreme Court · 1866
  2. N. Ward Co. v. Street CommissionersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
  3. Leffingwell v. WhiteNew York Supreme Court · 1799
  4. Bartol v. CalvertSupreme Court of Alabama · 1852
  5. Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. v. Board of EqualizationArizona Supreme Court · 1901

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