Urban Transport, Inc. v. Mayor of Boston

How courts have described this case

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• even after providing bus service to the city for three years, plaintiff could not recover because contract had never been approved by mayor
• “A contract with the city is not formed until the necessary statutory requirements are fulfilled”
• the party seeking to contract with the city bears the burden of proving compliance with the statutory requirements
• “Despite the abolition of this writ, the relief once provided under this ancient writ is still available if sought by complaint and summons”
• \relief provided in the nature of mandamus does not lie to compel [an] . . . officer to exercise his or her judgment or discretion in a particular way\
• judge may reject master’s conclusions of law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).