In re Directors of the Boston & Maine Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed in the Superior Court on August 11,1915, under St. 1906, e. 463, Part I, § 25, and acts in addition to and amendment thereof, for the appointment of a special commission to determine which party shall carry into effect and which party shall pay the charges and expenses of making the alterations ordered by the county commissioners of the county of Middlesex under St. 1906, c. 463, Part I, § 23, and acts in addition to and amendment thereof in determining that…
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Petition, filed in the Superior Court on August 11,1915, under St. 1906, e. 463, Part I, § 25, and acts in addition to and amendment thereof, for the appointment of a special commission to determine which party shall carry into effect and which party shall pay the charges and expenses of making the alterations ordered by the county commissioners of the county of Middlesex under St. 1906, c. 463, Part I, § 23, and acts in addition to and amendment thereof in determining that public necessity required that alterations, which did not involve the abolition of a grade crossing, should be made in…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
This is a petition brought in the Superior Court under the provisions of St. 1906, c. 463, Part I, §§ 25, 26, and acts in addition to and in amendment thereof, by the directors of the Boston and Maine Railroad, setting forth that the county commissioners of the county of Middlesex on petition of the directors of the Boston and Maine Railroad in accordance with the provisions of St. 1906, c. 463, Part I, § 23, have determined that public necessity requires that alterations, not involving the abolition of a crossing at grade, be made in a crossing of a public way in the city of Lowell, in…
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