Legal Opinion
Harrison v. Textron, Inc.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 30, 1975PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
The plaintiffs raise a variety of challenges to rulings and other determinations in several cases which relate to the use of residentially zoned land in Braintree for vehicular access to industrially zoned land. The location and some of the parties are not new to us.
We first encountered this general subject in Harrison v. Building Inspector of Braintree, 350 Mass. 559 (1966), a mandamus action seeking enforcement of the town zoning by-law. The petition raised the question whether “an owner of land in an industrial district may use lots of land in an adjacent residential zone as access…
2Cases cited34 opinions
- Billy Lamon Blackburn v. Fisk UniversityCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1971
- Thomas Powell v. Workmen's Compensation Board of the State of New York, American Mutual Liability Insurance Co., and O'Brien Bros. Shipyard Corporation, Thomas Powell v. Workmen's Compensation Board of the State of New York, American Mutual Liability Insurance Co., O'Brien Bros. Shipyard Corporation, Lee & Simmons Lighterage Co., Inc., Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of the State of New York, and Louis Lefkowitz, Attorney General of the State of New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1964
- Anna C. Dunn v. Ray GazzolaCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1954
- Kadlec v. Illinois Bell Telephone Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Jacob Powell v. Detective Sylvester Jarvis and Mary GambleCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1972
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3Cited by50 opinions
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- Bournewood Hospital, Inc. v. Massachusetts Commission Against DiscriminationMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
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