Legal Opinion
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority v. Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 25, 1965PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWhittemore, J.
This proceeding for declaratory relief has been reported without decision on the pleadings and a stipulation that brings before us as a case stated the facts established by the pleadings. The allegations of the bill are admitted. The Attorney General has acknowledged notice that constitutional questions are involved. G. L. c. 231A, § 8. The questions relate to St. 1964, c. 563, which by § 18 inserted G. L. c. 161A.
Chapter 161A, by § 2, creates the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and makes the territory of seventy-eight municipalities of Greater Boston and their inhabitants “a body…
2Cases cited41 opinions
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- Hamm v. City of Rock HillSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
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3Cited by57 opinions
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- Corning Glass Works v. Ann & Hope, Inc. of DanversMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
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