Legal Opinion
Connor v. Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 25, 1943PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
By St. 1926, c. 375 the defendant commission was established, and was empowered to divert into the Wachusett reservoir the flood waters of the Ware River and its tributaries, and to take lands, water rights and other property in the watersheds of the Ware and Swift rivers. The foregoing statute was supplemented by St. 1927, c. 321, which extended the waters to be diverted into the reservoir, *35and the lands, water rights and other property that might be taken. It was provided (§5) that a justice of this court might appoint a board of three referees for the determination of damages under the…
2Cases cited40 opinions
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- Metropolitan Casualty Ins. Co. v. BrownellSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
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