Legal Opinion
Opinion of the Justices to the Senate
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 13, 1955PublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*770To the Honorable the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:
The undersigned Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court respectfully submit these answers to questions set forth in an order of the Senate dated April 14, 1955, and transmitted to us on April 20.
The questions relate to the constitutionality of a proposed act for the development of an area of about twenty-eight acres of land in the Back Bay section of the city of Boston hitherto principally used as a railroad yard by the Boston and Albany Railroad, but the use of which for that purpose apparently either has been abandoned or is…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Berman v. ParkerSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
- Township of Hillsborough v. CromwellSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway v. BrowningSupreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Cumberland Coal Co. v. Board of Revision of Tax Assessments in Greene Cty.Supreme Court of the United States · 1931
- Lowell v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
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3Cited by53 opinions
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- Mitchell v. North Carolina Industrial Development Financing AuthoritySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1968
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