Lord v. Fiorenza

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Lord v. Fiorenza, 332 Mass. 757 (Mass. 1955)
127 N.E.2d 187

Lord v. Fiorenza

Opinion of the Court

Orders sustaining demurrers affirmed. This is a bill in equity to enjoin the defendant Fiorenza from leasing a certain parcel of land in the town of Winchester for use as a gasoline filling station and to enjoin the defendant board of selectmen of the said town from issuing a permit for the storage of gasoline and oil on the said parcel. The plaintiff, who is described in the bill as one who “has a buyer, ready, able and willing to buy the said land and deed it” to a neighboring church, appeals from orders sustaining the defendants’ demurrers. The plaintiff concedes that the bill cannot be regarded as a taxpayers’ petition to restrain illegal expenditures. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 40, § 53. His present contention that the bill may be maintained on the theory of a resulting trust based upon an oral promise made in 1935 to one now deceased by Caroline J. Murray, a former owner, also now deceased, cannot be upheld. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 203, § 1. Sprague v. Kimball, 213 Mass. 380. It is unnecessary to enumerate other fatal defects in the bill.

Reference

Full Case Name
Herbert Lord v. Mary T. Fiorenza & others
Status
Published