Legal Opinion
Quinn v. Rent Control Board
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided August 27, 1998No. Nos. 96-P-1563, 96-P-1587, 96-P-1603 & 97-P-36PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
The decision of the present appeals, if correct, concludes — it may be hoped — more than ten years of legal uncertainty or controversy about the regulation of rents and other matters affecting mobile home parks in the city of Peabody. We acknowledge that our decision owes much to the careful work of the judges below and especially the judge who presided at the three culminating trials.
I. NARRATIVE
a. Early legislation. Mobile home parks have been regulated by statewide legislation since 1939 (see St. 1939, c. 416) and we shall have occasion to refer below to provisions of the long standing…
2Cases cited21 opinions
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- United States Trust Co. of NY v. New JerseySupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Marshal House, Inc. v. Rent Control Board of BrooklineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1971
- Greenfield Country Estates Tenants Ass'n v. DeepMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1996
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3Cited by9 opinions
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