Selectmen of Brookline
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two PETITIONS, filed in the Superior Court on April 6, 1916, under St. 1906, c. 463, Part I, §§ 23, 25, as amended by St. 1908, c. 542, §§ 1, 2, for the appointment of special commissions to determine questions relative to the rebuilding of bridges over the Boston and Albany railroad at Cypress Street and at Aspinwall Avenue in Brookline under decrees of the county commissioners of Norfolk County entered on February 1, 1916. Commissions were appointed and filed reports,…
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Two PETITIONS, filed in the Superior Court on April 6, 1916, under St. 1906, c. 463, Part I, §§ 23, 25, as amended by St. 1908, c. 542, §§ 1, 2, for the appointment of special commissions to determine questions relative to the rebuilding of bridges over the Boston and Albany railroad at Cypress Street and at Aspinwall Avenue in Brookline under decrees of the county commissioners of Norfolk County entered on February 1, 1916. Commissions were appointed and filed reports, which are described in the opinion. Thereafter the Boston and Albany Railroad Company and the New York Central Railroad…
1Opinion of the CourtJenney, J.
These cases, as stated in the report under which they are before the court, are “two applications [under St. 1906, c. 463, Part I, § 27] of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company and the New York Central Railroad Company, Lessee, [hereinafter referred to as the railroad] for a jury to revise the reports and awards of two Special Commissions both appointed . . . October *26517, 1916, one to hear and determine which party should pay the charges and expenses incident to the execution of certain work ordered by the County Commissioners of Norfolk County under date of February 1, 1916, upon the bridge…
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- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co. v. Illinois ex rel. Drainage CommissionersSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
- Blair v. City of ChicagoSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
- Chicago & Alton Railroad v. TranbargerSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Steamship Co. v. JoliffeSupreme Court of the United States · 1865
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- Directors of the Boston & Albany RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
- Directors of Vermont & Massachusetts RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
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