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


336 Mass. 651 (1958)

148 N.E.2d 637

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

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

January 15, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert G. Dodge, (Harold S. Davis & Herbert P. Wilkins with him,) for the respondents New Bedford, Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority and others.

George M. Poland, (Ella M. Dolan with him,) for the respondent Backus.

William B. Perry, Jr., Assistant City Solicitor, (Bernard Kestenbaum, Assistant City Solicitor, with him,) for the petitioner.

Present: RONAN, SPALDING, WILLIAMS, COUNIHAN, & WHITTEMORE, JJ.


RONAN, J.

These are exceptions taken by the respondents comprising a public board created by St. 1948, c. 544, and known as New Bedford, Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority, three of its individual members, and three intervening banks who are owners of bonds issued by the board, to an order for judgment entered upon this petition for a writ of mandamus commanding the board and its five individual members "to comply with the provisions of...

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