Town of Holbrook v. Town of Randolph

Pursuant to St. 1885, c. 217, § 13, 1 the town of Holbrook (Holbrook) filed a complaint on March 31, 1975, asking this court to appoint three commissioners to resolve its dispute with the town of Randolph (Randolph) over the costs of operating and improving the towns’ joint water system. The complaint particularly attacks the requirement in § 13 that the “charges and expenses of the construction and maintenance and running of the joint water works and appurtenances, shall be borne and paid equally by the towns which unite and jointly act . . ..” The complaint requested that § 13 be construed…