Selectmen of Holliston v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on July-15, 1906, by the selectmen of the town of Holliston against the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, a corporation established under the laws of the State of New York, operating as lessee the railroad of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company, a corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth, to compel the performance of an order of the county commissioners of the county of Middlesex made…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on July-15, 1906, by the selectmen of the town of Holliston against the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company, a corporation established under the laws of the State of New York, operating as lessee the railroad of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company, a corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth, to compel the performance of an order of the county commissioners of the county of Middlesex made on January 6, 1906, upon the petition of the plaintiffs under R. L. c. Ill, § 132, determining that the railroad operated…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
A board of county commissioners duly organized constitutes a court clothed with judicial functions, and ministerial duties, conferred by statute, and their final decrees until set aside are to be given the same effect and degree of conclusiveness which generally attach to judgments of judicial tribunals. Smith v. Boston, 1 Gray, 72. Brewer v. Boston, Clinton Fitchburg Railroad, 113 Mass. 52, 56, 57. Plummer v. Waterville, 32 Maine, 566. Homer v. Fish, 1 Pick. 435, 439. Cooper v. Reynolds, 10 Wall. 308. Whenever given authority to hear and determine matters submitted to them, the regularity of…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Cooper v. ReynoldsSupreme Court of the United States · 1870
- Davis v. County CommissionersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
- Montgomery v. PickeringMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1874
- Cooke v. Boston and Lowell RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1882
- Brewer v. Boston, Clinton & Fitchburg RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
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- Boston & Albany Railroad v. Department of Public UtilitiesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
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