Commonwealth v. Chase
Cases that cite this one
8 later published cases cite this decision.
- N. Ward Co. v. Street Commissioners (Mass. 1914)
- Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. v. Board of Equalization (Ariz. 1901)
- Sprague v. Norway (Cal. 1866)
- Bartol v. Calvert (Ala. 1852)
- Harris v. Sturdivant (Me. 1849)
- Churchill v. President of Merchants' Bank (Mass. 1837)
- Union Bank of Georgetown v. Forrest (U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia 1827)
- Harlow v. Pike (Me. 1825)
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Opinion of the Court
This was a certiorari to the Sessions, brought to quash the proceedings relative to the laying out a highway in Shirley, upon the petition of Chase Al. The Court of Sessions, without * notice to the town, adjudged the way prayed [ * 171 ] ,for to be of common convenience and necessity, and appointed a committee to lay it out. And for this cause the
Proceedings were quashed.
Commonwealth vs. Peters, 3 Mass. Rep. 229. —Commonwealth vs. Cambridge, 4 Mass. Rep. 627. — Same vs. Same, 7 Mass Rep. 158 — Commonwealth vs. Coombs, 2 Mass. Rep. 489.— Commonwealth vs. Great Barrington, 6 Mass. Rep. 492.
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