Legal Opinion
City of New Bedford v. New Bedford, Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket Steamship Authority
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 14, 1953PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtQua, C.J.
This case involves the interpretation of St. 1948, c. 544, 1 which created the New Bedford, Woods Hole, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority. The controlling issue relates to the legal duty of the authority under the act to furnish steamship service to New Bedford and particularly raises the question whether it can suspend such service from the latter part of September until the latter part of April as it attempted to do until it was enjoined in the season of 1952-1953, and as it proposes to do, if it has the power, in the season of 1953-1954.
A similar question was held to have…
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