Legal Opinion
Goodyear Park Co. v. City of Holyoke
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 6, 1935PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
This is a suit in equity brought against the city of Holyoke to compel specific performance of a contract to purchase land from the plaintiff. The case was referred to a master who filed a report which was confirmed by an interlocutory decree. Thereafter there was a final decree for the plaintiff from which the defendant appealed. The evidence before the master is not reported.
The bill cannot be maintained on the facts found by the master, since no valid contract of purchase is shown.
St. 1872, c. 62, established for the defendant a board of water commissioners, which ever since, under that…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Clarke v. City of Fall RiverMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- McLean v. Mayor of HolyokeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
- United States Drainage & Irrigation Co. v. City of MedfordMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
- Bay State Street Railway Co. v. City of WoburnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
- Conners v. City of LowellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Singarella v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1961
- United States Leasing Corp. v. City of ChicopeeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1988
- Cullen v. Mayor of NewtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1941
- Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co. v. Mayor of Fall RiverMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1941
- Olszewski v. SardynskiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1944
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