Legal Opinion
MacDonald v. Board of Street Commissioners
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided July 18, 1929PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBugg, C.J.
These are two suits in equity, one by eleven taxable inhabitants of the city of Boston, the other by a corporation, which also was allowed to intervene as a party in interest in the first suit. The defendants are the individuals constituting the board of street commissioners of the city of Boston. Although the first suit is not alleged in terms to be brought under G. L. c. 40, § 53, whereby jurisdiction in equity is conferred upon the court at the suit of not less than ten taxable inhabitants to restrain the unlawful exercise or abuse of the corporate power of a municipality if it or any of…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Lowell v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Attorney General v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877
- Higginson v. Treasurer & School House CommissionersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
- Duffy v. Treasurer & Receiver GeneralMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
- Commonwealth v. McNaryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
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3Cited by24 opinions
- Lowell v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1948
- Stockus v. Boston Housing AuthorityMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- American Employers' Insurance v. Commissioner of InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- Dealtry v. Selectmen of WatertownMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
- Cabot v. Assessors of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1956
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