Legal Opinion
Howard v. City of Chicopee
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 28, 1937PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
This petition in equity by fifteen taxable inhabitants of Chicopee under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 40, § 53, was filed on January 13, 1936. Its object was to enjoin Chicopee and various other respondents who were officers of that city from making expenditures of money and from doing any other act toward carrying out a purported contract between that city and the Holyoke Water Power Company for the supply of electricity by the latter company for distribution through the plant of the city. The petition of that company to be joined as a party respondent was granted and it filed an answer and…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Leonard v. School Committee of the City of SpringfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
- Fuller v. Trustees of Deerfield AcademyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1925
- Dealtry v. Selectmen of WatertownMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
- Hunt v. BassettMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1929
- G. E. Lothrop Theatres Co. v. Edison Electric Illuminating Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Hansen v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1962
- Cabot v. Assessors of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1956
- Murphy v. Charlestown Savings BankMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- City of New Bedford v. New Bedford, Woods Hole & Steamship AuthorityMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1952
- Attorney General v. City of WoburnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1948
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