272 Mass. 161 | Mass. | 1930
This is a petition filed in the Superior Court for the assessment of damages for the alleged taking of land of the petitioner. Upon the facts to which the parties agreed the trial judge subject to the plaintiff’s exception found and ruled that the taking was invalid and reported the case to this court upon the following terms: “If the
With certain exceptions not material to this case, the government of the city of Medford and the general management and control of all its fiscal, prudential and municipal affairs are vested in a single office of the mayor and a single legislative board called the board of aldermen, composed of twenty-one members. St. 1903, c. 345, §§ 2, 8. Except as otherwise provided in the chapter, this board is given the legislative powers of towns and also all the powers and authority given to city councils and boards of aldermen under the general laws of the Commonwealth, and all the
It was the apparent purpose of the Legislature in enacting G. L. c. 79 to establish throughout the Commonwealth uniformity in the method of taking real estate for public purposes and in assessing damages for such taking. See Vol. 1 of the Preliminary Report of the Commissioners to Consolidate and Arrange the General Laws, pages VII,
So ordered.