Legal Opinion
O'Connor v. City of Brockton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 3, 1941PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtQua, J.
This petition is brought under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 71, § 34, as amended by St. 1939, c. 294.
The amended section reads in part as follows: “Every city and town shall annually provide an amount of money sufficient for the support of the public schools as required by this chapter. Upon petition to the superior court, sitting in equity, against a city or town, brought by ten or more taxable inhabitants thereof, or by the mayor of a city, or by the attorney general, alleging that the amount necessary in such city or town for the support of public schools as aforesaid has not been included in the…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Opinion of the Justices to the Senate & the House of RepresentativesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1925
- Leonard v. School Committee of the City of SpringfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
- Opinion of the Justices to the SenateMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Rochester Railway Co. v. RobinsonNew York Court of Appeals · 1892
- School Committee of the City of Lowell v. Mayor of LowellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1928
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Lowell Gas Co. v. Department of Public UtilitiesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
- Ring v. City of WoburnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1942
- Union Old Lowell National Bank v. PaineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1945
- Hayes v. City of BrocktonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
- School Committee v. City of GloucesterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
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