BOSTON EDISON CO. v. SUDBURY


356 Mass. 406 (1969)

253 N.E.2d 850

BOSTON EDISON COMPANY vs. TOWN OF SUDBURY & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 26, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Carroll, Donald R. Grant & John J. Desmond, III, for Boston Edison Company.

Philip B. Buzzell & Joseph P. Warner for the towns of Sherborn, Sudbury and Wayland; Theodore Chase, Town Counsel, for the Town of Sherborn; John M. Kahn, Town Counsel, for the Town of Framingham; C. Peter R. Gossels, Town Counsel, for the Town of Wayland; and Earl F. Nauss, Jr., Town Counsel, for the Town of Sudbury.

Robert H. Quinn, Attorney General, & William E. Searson, III, Assistant Attorney General, for the Department of Public Utilities, amicus curiae.

Present: SPALDING, CUTTER, KIRK, SPIEGEL, & REARDON, JJ.


CUTTER, J.

The plaintiff (Edison) proposes to construct an overhead line for the transmission of electricity at 230,000 volts (230 KV) between an existing Edison substation in Medway and one in Sudbury. Questions concerning this or related transmission lines have been before this court in Sudbury v. Department of Pub. Util. 343 Mass. 428 (the first Sudbury case), and 351 Mass. 214

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