ERROR TO THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. No. 141. Motion to dismiss or affirm submitted November 13, 1922. Decided December 4, 1922. 1. Upon review here of a state judgment, an order of the state Supreme Court substituting the successor of a state official as a party is accepted as a conclusive determination that the state law authorized the substitution. P. 313. 2. Where the state court justifiably construed the bill as standing for further relief after a particular tax
October 22, 1919. November 12, 1919. Present: RUGG, C. J., BRALEY, De COURCY, CROSBY, CARROLL, JJ. Constitutional Law, Taxation, Distribution of income tax, Equal protection of laws, Due process of law. Tax, On income. No limitation in the Constitution, either before or after the Forty-fourth Amendment, prevents the General Court from committing to a State officer or officers appointed by the Governor, rather than to the assessors and collectors of taxes of the several towns and cities, the levy
November 16, 17, 1920. February 28, 1921. Present: RUGG, C. J., BRALEY, De COURCY, CROSBY, PIERCE, JJ. Contract, What constitutes. Constitutional Law, Government operation of public utility, Due process of law. Tax, To support public utility. General Court. Boston Elevated Railway Company. Equity Pleading and Practice, Bill. Evidence, Matter of common knowledge. Words, "Take possession." Spec. St. 1918, c. 159, having been accepted by the railway companies, constitutes an agreement between the Boston
May 24, 1926. June 30, 1926. Present: BRALEY, CROSBY, PIERCE, CARROLL, WAIT, SANDERSON, JJ. Department of Public Utilities, Petition for approval of bond issue. Equity Jurisdiction, To annul, review, modify or amend decision by department of public utilities. Equity Pleading and Practice, Parties, Reservation. Boston and Albany Railroad Company. New York Central Railroad Company. In the provisions in the lease of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company to New York Central and Hudson River Railroad
November 17, 1920. February 28, 1921. Present: RUGG, C. J., BRALEY, CROSBY, PIERCE, JJ. Certiorari. Constitutional Law, Government operation of public utility, Due process of law. Boston Elevated Railway Company. General Court. Chelsea. Tax, Referendum of tax legislation, To support public utility and pay dividends to stockholders. A petition for a writ of certiorari cannot be maintained against a person named as Treasurer and Receiver General who has ceased to hold that office. The duties imposed
1922. It being a matter of general knowledge that Henry D. Coolidge had been clerk of the Senate beginning with 1889 continuously until his death in February, 1922, and that he was justly held in high esteem by reason of public service of exceptional merit and rare efficiency rendered during an unusual period of time, Res. 25 of 1922, providing that there should be allowed and paid from the treasury of the Commonwealth to his widow "the remainder of the salary to which he would have been entitled