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· 12/19/2008

Collins v. Historic District Commission

Citations

  • 73 Mass. App. Ct. 388
  • 897 N.E.2d 1281

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that “[i]t has been generally held that a municipally owned waterworks supplying water outside its corporate limits may, generally, charge more for that service than it charges the users who reside within the corporate limits”
  • ‘‘[w]hether a rate is reason- able or unreasonable is primarily a question of fact, depending largely on the circumstances of the particu- lar case’’
  • court’s responsibility on appeal was to determine whether trial court was obliged to find that plaintiffs had established by a fair preponderance of the evidence that utility rates were unlawfully discriminatory
  • contrasting \reasonable\ exercise of discretion from that which is \arbitrary\

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Judges: Brown

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