SUDBURY v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES


343 Mass. 428 (1962)

179 N.E.2d 263

TOWN OF SUDBURY vs. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC UTILITIES & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 4, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip B. Buzzell, (Edward T. Simoneau, Town Counsel, with him,) for the town of Sudbury.

John J. Coffey, Assistant Attorney General, for the Department of Public Utilities.

William R. Cook, for the Boston Edison Company.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., WILLIAMS, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, & SPIEGEL, JJ.


CUTTER, J.

The town has appealed under G.L.c. 25, § 5 (as amended through St. 1956, c. 190), from a decision of the department determining that a seven mile electric transmission line proposed by Boston Edison Company (Edison) "is necessary for the purposes alleged [by Edison], will serve the public convenience and is consistent with the public interest." See G.L.c. 164, § 72 (as amended through St. 1926, c. 256). A single justice of this court has reserved...

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