320 Mass. 81 | Mass. | 1946
When this case was here before, Revere v. Blaustein, 315 Mass. 93, it was decided that the bill set forth a case for relief, and decrees sustaining the demurrer and. dismissing the bill were reversed. It was held, in determining that the allegations were sufficient, if proved, to maintain the bill, that the board of health of Revere was not required to assign any place in that city for carrying on the trade or employment of painting bodies of automobile trucks; that the board, having found that the carrying on of this trade or employment by the defendant “is hurtful to the inhabitants and injurious to their estates and dangerous to public health and is noisome and attended by injurious odors,” could prohibit its exercise in the city or at any location therein; that the board had prohibited the exercise of such trade or employment; that the defendant had the right to appeal to the Superior Court for a jury trial to contest the validity of the order of prohibition and, if possible, to secure an annulment or modification of the order; and that the defendant, having taken such appeal, which had terminated adversely to him, could not in the instant suit show that the business conducted by him was not a noisome and offensive trade. It was further held that the statutes under which the board had proceeded were valid, and that nothing appeared upon the face of the bill to.indicate that any constitutional right of the defendant had been violated or that the action of the board was arbitrary, inequitable or unjust.
The suit has now been heard in the Superior Court, where a final decree was entered enjoining the defendant from conducting the business of painting bodies of automobile trucks on the premises located at 1459 North Shore Road, Revere, with costs to the plaintiff assessed as in an action at law. The defendant has appealed from this decree. We have a report of the evidence.
The board of health had passed a regulation in 1929, which has since been in effect, prohibiting the exercise of
None of the rulings on evidence was erroneous. The majority of the exceptions taken to the exclusion of evidence relate to the existence of a nuisance or the good faith of the board — issues which were not open — others were objectionable as hearsay, and the rest were immaterial. We need not discuss them one by one. They have all been examined.
There is nothing in the contention that the injunction granted by the final decree is too broad. Lincoln v. Giles, 317 Mass. 185. The decree, however, should have stated the amount of costs, and as modified by inserting this amount it is affirmed with costs.
So ordered,