Legal Opinion

Kenyon v. City of Chicopee

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided December 9, 1946PublishedCited by 66 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtQua, J.

This cause, is here upon the appeal of the plaintiffs from a final decree dismissing the bill after the sustaining of demurrers of all the defendants. The appeal from the final decree also opens for revision here the interlocutory decrees sustaining the demurrers. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 214, § 27. Gibbons v. Gibbons, 296 Mass. 89.

The ten plaintiffs are all “Jehovah’s Witnesses.” The defendants are the city of Chicopee, one Bourbeau, mayor of the city, one Linehan, its chief of police, one Shea, its city solicitor, one O’Connor, described as “Clerk of Courts and Attorney for the Commonwealth in…

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