Opinion of the Justices to the Governor & Council

On April 30, 1941, the Governor and Council adopted and transmitted to the Justices the following order:

To the Honorable the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:

Whereas, with relation to the Boston Elevated Railway Company it is provided by Special Acts of 1918, c. 159, section 9 and section 11, as amended, as follows:

“Section 9. Whenever the income of the company is insufficient to meet the cost of the service as herein defined, the reserve fund shall be used as far as necessary to make up such deficiency, and whenever, on the other hand, such income…