McINTYRE v. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE CTY OF BRISTOL


356 Mass. 520 (1969)

254 N.E.2d 242

JOHN W. McINTYRE & others vs. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE COUNTY OF BRISTOL & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

December 23, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Talbot T. Tweedy for certain interveners.

Douglas Smerdon, intervener, pro se.

Walter J. Hurley (Melvin S. Louison & Sheldon J. Cohen with him) for the respondents Charles A. Frates & another.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, CUTTER, KIRK, SPIEGEL, REARDON, & QUIRICO, JJ.


CUTTER, J.

Twenty inhabitants of Bristol County, each of whom is an attorney, seek a writ of mandamus to compel the county commissioners to select a court house site, to have plans and specifications prepared, and to take other steps to "provide adequate and suitable facilities and accommodations" in that county for the Superior Court. It is alleged that the present court house facilities are inadequate, that the county commissioners are charged by G.L.c. 34, §...

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