Attorney General v. Williams
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Information in equity, filed September 11, 1898, by the Attorney General, at the relation of the Museum of Fine Arts, to restrain the erection and maintenance of a building on Copley Square in Boston above the height of ninety feet prescribed by St. 1898, c. 452, entitled “ An Act relative to the height of buildings on and near Copley Square in the city of Boston.” A demurrer and pleas were filed by the defendants.
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Information in equity, filed September 11, 1898, by the Attorney General, at the relation of the Museum of Fine Arts, to restrain the erection and maintenance of a building on Copley Square in Boston above the height of ninety feet prescribed by St. 1898, c. 452, entitled “ An Act relative to the height of buildings on and near Copley Square in the city of Boston.” A demurrer and pleas were filed by the defendants. Hearing before Knowlton, J., who reported the case for the consideration of the full court. The facts appear in the opinion. The case was argued at the bar in January, 1899, and…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
This is an information by the Attorney General to prevent the erection and maintenance of that portion of a building on Copley Square in the city of Boston which is above the limit of height prescribed by St. 1898, c. 452. Section 1 of this statute is as follows: “ Any building now being built or hereafter to be built, rebuilt, or altered in the city of Boston upon any land abutting on St. James Avenue between Clarendon Street and Dartmouth Street, or upon land at the corner of Dartmouth Street and Huntington Avenue, now occupied by the Pierce building, so called, or upon land abutting on…
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