Legal Opinion
New York Central Railroad v. Ayer
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 27, 1925PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
This is a writ of error. It is brought to reverse a final decree entered upon a petition for attachment for contempt in a suit in equity which has been before this court in other aspects and is reported in 239 Mass. 70, and in 242 Mass. 69. The case was brought in order to enforce the rights of the plaintiffs to have a strip of land ten feet wide on the defendant’s land, being one half of a twenty foot passageway over which the plaintiffs have rights, kept open and unobstructed. The plaintiffs prevailed on the merits of the main action. The final decree after the last rescript ordered the…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1911
- Bessette v. W. B. Conkey Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1904
- Terminal Railroad Ass'n v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
- Cartwright's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Myers v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Commonwealth v. Town of HudsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
- Blankenburg v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1927
- Berlandi v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
- Root v. MacDonaldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1927
- Dolan v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
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