City of Cambridge v. Board of Railroad Commissioners

These are petitions for certiorari and for mandamus against the board of railroad commissioners, and are both based oil the same facts. Two petitions were brought, owing to the uncertainty as to which was the proper remedy. The cases were heard together, before a single justice, who found and ruled in favor of the petitioner, and reported the cases to this court for its decision as to whether certiorari or mandamus, or both or neither, should issue. The admissibility of certain evidence is also involved. At the hearing before the single justice, the city of Boston and the Boston and Albany…