MORASH & SONS, INC. v. COMMONWEALTH


363 Mass. 612 (1973)

296 N.E.2d 461

MORASH & SONS, INC. vs. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

May 14, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles P. Burgess for the plaintiff.

Christopher H. Worthington, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Present: TAURO, C.J., REARDON, HENNESSEY, KAPLAN, & WILKINS, JJ.


HENNESSEY, J.

This is a petition in equity brought against the Commonwealth by Morash & Sons, Inc. (the corporation), seeking to enjoin the Commonwealth from storing road salt on State property and seeking damages resulting from the pollution of the corporation's water supply by such storage.

The Superior Court judge heard evidence only on the issue of liability but then, failing to pass on the merits, dismissed the petition, ruling that the doctrine of...

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