City of Fall River v. Public Service Commissioners
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on March 10, 1917, under St. 1913, c. 784, § 27, by the city of Fall River and its mayor and the president of its board of aldermen against the members of the public service commission and the Bay State Street Railway Company praying this court to review, annul, modify or amend the rulings and order made by the respondent commissioners on March 6, 1917, permitting the schedule, filed by the respondent corporation and referred to…
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Petition, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on March 10, 1917, under St. 1913, c. 784, § 27, by the city of Fall River and its mayor and the president of its board of aldermen against the members of the public service commission and the Bay State Street Railway Company praying this court to review, annul, modify or amend the rulings and order made by the respondent commissioners on March 6, 1917, permitting the schedule, filed by the respondent corporation and referred to in such order, to become effective at the end of the period of suspension fixed by the respondent commissioners; and…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
It appears among the terms of the grant of location to the Globe Street Railway Company, to whose franchises and obligations so far as involved in the cases at bar the defendant company has succeeded, that the company was “to construct, electrically equip, and maintain its tracks ... on Slade’s Ferry Bridge . . . according to the plans on file,” subject to the conditions that the company, its successors and assigns “shall, so long as its tracks continue to be on said . . . bridge, keep in repair, at its own expense, all of the roadway of said bridge, for its entire length, to the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Board of Survey v. Bay State Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
- City of Springfield v. Springfield Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1902
- City of Worcester v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1902
- Bulkeley v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1914
- Mayor of Worcester v. Worcester Consolidated Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
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- Lowell Gas Co. v. Department of Public UtilitiesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
- Boston Elevated Railway Co. v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1942
- Donham v. Public Service CommissionersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
- City Council of Salem v. Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1925
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