Legal Opinion
Attorney General v. Stratton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 11, 1907PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
This is an information in the nature of a quo warranta to require the respondents to show by what warrant and authority they exercise the office of members of the board of health of the town of Swampscott.
It appears that the inhabitants of the town, at the annual town meeting in March, 1906, which was called for many purposes, and among others to hear and act upon the reports of numerous town officers, including the report of the board of health, appointed a committee of five voters to investigate the doings of the board of health for the three municipal years then ending, with authority to…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Hill v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- Stetson v. KemptonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1816
- Ottawa v. CareySupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- Bloomfield v. Charter Oak BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Inhabitants of Agawam v. County of HampdenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1881
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Commonwealth v. DoweMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
- Adie v. Mayor of HolyokeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- Bailen v. Board of Assessors of ChelseaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
- Welch v. Mayor of TauntonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1962
- Collins v. Selectmen of BrooklineMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1950
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