Legal Opinion
Foley v. City of Haverhill
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 5, 1887PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
The first-named action is brought to recover the amount of a betterment tax paid under protest. The betterment was assessed on December 9, 1884, in respect of improvements of River Street, in Haverhill, ordered by the board of aider-men on May 26, 1884, and afterwards by the common council in concurrence. This order of May 26, which took land for the widening and straightening of the street, and laid out one end of it anew over different land from that previously used, was made on the footing of the validity of two previous orders, one in 1871, laying out River Street from Washington Street…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Hendrick v. WhittemoreMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
- Jones v. Board of AldermenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
- Foster v. Board of Park CommissionersMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1882
- Prince v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1872
- Sisson v. City of New BedfordMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1884
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Miller v. HortonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1891
- Atkinson v. City Council of NewtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
- Radway v. Selectmen of DennisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1929
- Taft v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
- Old Colony Railroad v. City of Fall RiverMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
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