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· 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

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • 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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