GILDEA v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION


336 Mass. 48 (1957)

142 N.E.2d 400

THOMAS J. GILDEA vs. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 8, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Reed, (Alette Reed with him,) for the plaintiff.

Arnold H. Salisbury, Assistant Attorney General, (Fred L. True, Assistant Attorney General, with him,) for the defendant.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WILLIAMS, COUNIHAN, & WHITTEMORE, JJ.


WILLIAMS, J.

This is a bill in equity filed on August 27, 1956, by a prisoner in Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole, formerly called the State prison, under G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 231A, praying that "§ 129 of c. 127 of the General Laws as it is now and has been in effect be construed in its application to ... [the plaintiff], particularly with respect" to a forfeiture by the parole board in January, 1956, of certain good conduct credits accumulated by...

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