COUNTY OF DUKES v. NEW BEDFORD, WOODS HOLE, & C.


333 Mass. 405 (1956)

131 N.E.2d 206

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

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

January 3, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward O. Proctor, for the County of Dukes County.

John P. Sylvia, Jr., for the town of Falmouth.

Russell J. Coffin, for the town of Nantucket, submitted a brief.

Andrew P. Doyle, City Solicitor, for the city of New Bedford.

Robert M. Segal, (Arthur J. Flamm with him,) for Sawyer and another.

Robert G. Dodge & Harold S. Davis, for New Bedford, Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, submitted a brief.

Present: QUA, C.J., SPALDING, WILLIAMS, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


QUA, C.J.

This is a bill originally brought in this court by the county against the authority for a declaratory decree and other relief involving the legality of the conduct of the authority in respect to matters hereinafter described as the result of which the county contends that unreasonable and unnecessary expense will be assessed upon it under the provisions of the statutes creating the authority. St. 1948, c. 544, as amended by St. 1949, c. 142. Subsequently...

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