Balcam v. Town of Hingham

The defendants appeal from a Superior Court order granting the plaintiffs’ request for a mandatory preliminary injunction. The defendants appealed to a single justice of the Appeals Court pursuant to G. L. c. 231, § 118, par. 1, and Mass.RA.P. 6(a), 378 Mass. 930 (1979), who stayed the preliminary injunction pending appeal to a panel of this court. *261We now review the Superior Court judge’s decision pursuant to c. 231, § 118, par. 2, under an abuse of discretion standard, Biotti v. Selectmen of Manchester, 25 Mass. App. Ct. 637, 640 (1988), subjecting the judge’s conclusions of law to “broad…