QUINN v. RENT CONTROL BOARD OF PEABODY

Nos. 96-P-1563, 96-P-1587, 96-P-1603 & 97-P-36.

45 Mass. App. Ct. 357 (1998)

EDWIN A. QUINN, trustee, v. RENT CONTROL BOARD OF PEABODY; DONNA ROSANNO & others, interveners (and three companion cases).

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Essex.

August 27, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donna L. Palermino, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth.

Vincent R. Brogna for Mary Jane Welch & others.

Anthony M. Metaxas (Joel Rosen with him) for Edwin A. Quinn.

David Wm. Adams for Donna Rosanno & others.

Thomas C. Regan for Hilda Kapamagian.

Daniel B. Kulak, Assistant City Solicitor, for city of Peabody & another.

Scott Harshbarger, Attorney General, Donna L. Palermino & Chi Chi Wu, Assistant Attorneys General, for the Commonwealth, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: KASS, KAPLAN, & LAURENCE, JJ.


KAPLAN, J.

The decision of the present appeals, if correct, concludes — it may be hoped — more than ten years of legal uncertainty or controversy about the regulation of rents and other matters affecting mobile home parks in the city of Peabody. We acknowledge that our decision owes much to the careful work of the judges below and especially the judge who presided at the three culminating trials.

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