O'Malley v. Public Improvement Commission of Boston

This is an appeal from the trial judge’s dismissal of a petition for a writ of certiorari to quash two assessment orders of the commission. The orders, dated April 13, 1960, assessed sewer betterments on fifteen of the parcels of land discussed in O’Malley v. Commissioner of Pub. Works, 340 Mass. 542, and related to the same sewers. We do not restate the facts set out in the earlier opinion.

Connections to the sewers for various parcels were made under permit as follows: September 11, 1957, three parcels; April 9, 1959, three parcels; September 14, 1959, six parcels; and between October 13,…