Harris v. Town of Wayland

How courts have described this case

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• section 3 does not become operative until transfer has been approved by town vote
• \To require town boards in control of land to [develop the land] would encourage unnecessary and premature development and preclude careful planning for future needs\
• where 1956 town meeting authorized board of selectmen to acquire property “for school purposes,” fact that property had not been developed for several decades did change fact that it was acquired for specific purpose
• property placed under control of school committee where warrant for special town meeting, “coupled with all the attendant circumstances, was sufficient to indicate that the town intended to place the property in the charge of the school committee”
• \The warrant for the special town meeting . . . shows that . . . it was commonly understood that the property remained in the charge of the school committee in the twenty-five years that it had been held by the town\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).