· 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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