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Petition by the metropolitan park commissioners under St. 1899, c. 419, for the appointment of apportionment commissioners, filed March 26,1900. The award of the commissioners was recommitted to them in accordance with a decision of this court reported in 178 Mass. 213, in order that they might state the grounds of their determination. Thereafter the commissioners filed a supplemental award.
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Petition by the metropolitan park commissioners under St. 1899, c. 419, for the appointment of apportionment commissioners, filed March 26,1900. The award of the commissioners was recommitted to them in accordance with a decision of this court reported in 178 Mass. 213, in order that they might state the grounds of their determination. Thereafter the commissioners filed a supplemental award. The case came on for hearing before Loving, J., on a motion of the Attorney General for the acceptance of the award. The award was objected to by the city of Newton and the towns of Milton and Brookline.…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
This case comes before us upon objections made by the towns of Brookline and Milton to the supplemental award.
The power of the Legislature in a matter of this kind was elaborately considered in the case of Kingman, petitioner, 153 Mass. 566, and, so far as material to the questions arising in this case, was sufficiently defined, and we simply refer to the opinion in that case for a statement of the ground upon which the power rests and the reasoning by which it is sustained.
In the present case the Legislature designated the towns and cities by whom should be borne the cost of this public…
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- KingmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
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