Stone v. City of Charlestown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petitions to this court, the first filed under St. 1873, e. 286. § 18; the second under St. 1873, e. 314, § 13. The first petition was as follows: “ Respectfully show your petitioners, being fifty voters of the city of Charlestown in the county of Middlesex in said Commonwealth, as follows: “ 1. By chapter two hundred and eighty-six (286) of the acta of the Legislature of this Commonwealth, passed in the year 1873, the said Legislature assumed and undertook to unite the city…
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Petitions to this court, the first filed under St. 1873, e. 286. § 18; the second under St. 1873, e. 314, § 13. The first petition was as follows: “ Respectfully show your petitioners, being fifty voters of the city of Charlestown in the county of Middlesex in said Commonwealth, as follows: “ 1. By chapter two hundred and eighty-six (286) of the acta of the Legislature of this Commonwealth, passed in the year 1873, the said Legislature assumed and undertook to unite the city of Boston in said county of Suffolk, and the said city of Charlestown, in the manner and upon the terms and conditions…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
These petitions are filed under the concluding sections of the Sts. of 1873, cc. 286, 314, respectively, annexing the city of Charlestown and the town of West Roxbury to the city of Boston. The petitioners seek to have the election and balloting by which those acts have been accepted by the municipalities immediately affected declared void, for various reasons, many of which apply equally to both petitions, and the two cases may be conveniently disposed of in one opinion.
1. One of the principal objections made to the validity of the proceedings in each case is that the statute in question,…
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