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NEW BEDFORD v. NEW BEDFORD, WOODS HOLE & C. S.S. AUTH.

330 Mass. 422 (1953)

114 N.E.2d 553

CITY OF NEW BEDFORD & others vs. NEW BEDFORD, WOODS HOLE, MARTHA'S VINEYARD AND NANTUCKET STEAMSHIP AUTHORITY & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

September 14, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Dodge, (Harold S. Davis with him,) for the defendant New Bedford, Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority.

Harry A. Lider, City Solicitor, for the plaintiff city of New Bedford.

Kenneth B. Williams, for Standard Grocery Company and others, interveners.

W. Arthur Garrity, Jr., for individuals from Woods Hole, interveners.

George M. Poland, for Lewis and others, interveners.

James C. Roy, for County of Dukes County, intervener.

Russell J. Coffin, for town of Nantucket, intervener.

Present: QUA, C.J., LUMMUS, WILKINS, WILLIAMS, & COUNIHAN, JJ.

QUA, C.J.

This case involves the interpretation of St. 1948, c. 544,1 which created the New Bedford, Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority. The controlling issue relates to the legal duty of the authority under the act to furnish steamship service to New Bedford and particularly raises the question whether it can suspend such service from the latter part of September until the latter part of April as it attempted...

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