CAMBRIDGE v. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WELFARE


357 Mass. 183 (1970)

257 N.E.2d 782

CITY OF CAMBRIDGE vs. COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WELFARE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 3, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip M. Cronin, City Solicitor, for the plaintiff.

Walter H. Mayo, III, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

A. Van C. Lanckton, for Massachusetts Welfare Rights Organization & others, submitted a brief.

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


QUIRICO, J.

This is a bill in equity brought by the city of Cambridge (city) against the Commissioner of Public Welfare of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (commissioner) under G.L.c. 231A, for a declaratory decree concerning certain liens which the city had acquired under the old age assistance law, G.L.c. 118A, prior to the comprehensive amendment thereof by St. 1967, c. 658, effective July 1, 1968. The case was heard...

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