Police Commissioner v. Lewis

On September 3,1975, a judge of the Housing Court of the City of Boston issued a preliminary injunction requiring the police commissioner of the city of Boston “to provide 24-hour security protection to the persons and residences of the named Plaintiffs and of the *333class.”2 The commissioner, plaintiff in the case now before us, filed a petition in the Supreme Judicial Court for relief from the interlocutory order of the Housing Court. See G. L. c. 231, § 118. A single justice of this court reserved and reported the case without decision for determination by the full court.

The plaintiff…