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JACOBSON v. PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION OF BOSTON

345 Mass. 641 (1963)

189 N.E.2d 199

WILLIAM JACOBSON & others vs. PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION OF BOSTON & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 1, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Kerr for the defendants.

Charles F. Mahoney (Morris M. Goldings with him) for the plaintiffs.

Paul B. Sargent, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, KIRK, & REARDON, JJ.

WHITTEMORE, J.

This is a bill in equity brought by twelve taxpayers of the city of Boston under G.L.c. 214, § 3 (11), against the city's parks and recreation commission (hereinafter parks department) and, by amendment, the city, in order (quoting the words of the statute) "to enforce the purpose ... of ... [the] gift or conveyance" to the city of land in its Brighton district included within the Chestnut Hill Reservoir grounds, for the "specific purpose ... in...

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