· 7/5/1979
Beard v. Town of Salisbury
Citations
- 392 N.E.2d 832
- 378 Mass. 435
- 1979 Mass. LEXIS 868
How courts have described this case
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- invalidating town by-law prohibiting removal of sand, loam, or gravel from land not in public use because bylaw exercised power provided by neither enabling statute nor Home Rule Amendment
- majority of the court conclude that a municipality may not use its authority to regulate earth removal to forbid transport of fill out of the town on public ways
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Judges: Hennessey, Quirico, Kaplan, Wilkins, Abrams
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