State Supreme Court / Mass.

MacGibbon v. Board of Appeals of Duxbury

Decided January 29, 1970. Francis Quirico wrote the opinion for the court.

255 N.E.2d 347 · Cited 115 times

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Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

Building Commissioner v. C. & H. Co. · 319 Mass. 273
Butler v. Town of East Bridgewater · 110 N.E.2d 922
MacGibbon v. Board of Appeals of Duxbury · 200 N.E.2d 254
Arverne Bay Construction Co. v. Thatcher · 15 N.E.2d 587
Caires v. Building Commissioner · 323 Mass. 589
Leahy v. Inspector of Buildings · 308 Mass. 128
Gulf Oil Corp. v. Board of Appeals of Framingham · 244 N.E.2d 311
Burnham v. Board of Appeals of Gloucester · 128 N.E.2d 772
Town of Lexington v. Bean · 272 Mass. 547
Everpure Ice Manufacturing Co. v. Board of Appeals · 324 Mass. 433
122 Main Street Corp. v. City of Brockton · 323 Mass. 646
Aronson v. Town of Sharon · 195 N.E.2d 341
Commissioner of Natural Resources v. S. Volpe & Co. · 206 N.E.2d 666
Sellors v. Town of Concord · 107 N.E.2d 784
Jenckes v. Building Commissioner of Brookline · 167 N.E.2d 757
Carson v. Board of Appeals · 321 Mass. 649
Enos v. City of Brockton · 236 N.E.2d 919
Raimondo v. Board of Appeals of Bedford · 118 N.E.2d 67
Commonwealth v. Protami · 354 Mass. 210
Cross v. Planning Board of Chelmsford · 189 N.E.2d 189

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MacGibbon v. Board of Appeals of Duxbury · 340 N.E.2d 487
Fordham v. Butera · 450 Mass. 42
Turnpike Realty Co. v. Town of Dedham · 284 N.E.2d 891
Sinaiko v. Zoning Bd. of Appeals of Provincetown · 102 N.E.3d 987
Golden v. Board of Selectmen of Falmouth · 265 N.E.2d 573
S. Volpe & Co. v. Board of Appeals of Wareham · 348 N.E.2d 807
Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. BD. OF APPEALS OF AMHERST · 276 N.E.2d 718
Jepson v. Zoning Board of Appeals · 450 Mass. 81
Just v. Marinette County · 201 N.W.2d 761
Board of Appeals of Hanover v. Housing Appeals Comm. · 294 N.E.2d 393
Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers of New York, Inc. v. Board of Appeal · 454 Mass. 374
Gumley v. Board of Selectmen of Nantucket · 358 N.E.2d 1011
Yankee Atomic Electric Co. v. Secretary of the Commonwealth · 403 Mass. 203
TRUSTEES UNDER WILL ETC. v. Town of Westlake · 357 So. 2d 1299
Cumberland Farms of Connecticut, Inc. v. Zoning Board of Appeal · 267 N.E.2d 906
Sibson v. State · 111 N.H. 305
Lovequist v. Conservation Commission of Dennis · 393 N.E.2d 858
Roberts v. Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems, Inc. · 429 Mass. 478
SCIT, Inc. v. Planning Board of Braintree · 472 N.E.2d 269
State v. Johnson · 265 A.2d 711
Shuman v. Board of Aldermen of Newton · 282 N.E.2d 653
Berliner v. Feldman · 298 N.E.2d 153
Building Commissioner v. Dispatch Communications of New England, Inc. · 48 Mass. App. Ct. 709
MacNeil v. Town of Avon · 435 N.E.2d 1043
Goldman v. Town of Dennis · 375 N.E.2d 1212

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