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Bellows Falls Power Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1917 — 245 U.S. 630 · caselaw · US
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Bellows Falls Power Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
245 U.S. 630·Supreme Court of the United States·1917
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No. 59.
Bellows Falls Power Company, Plaintiff in Error, v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Ip error to the Supreme Judicial Court of thé State of Massachusetts.
Argued November 16, 1917.
Decided November 19, 1917.
Mr. Bichard Y. FitzGerald for plaintiff in error.
Mr. Henry C. Attwill and- Mr. William Harold Hitchcock for defendant in error.
[MAJORITY — Per Curiam.]
Per Curiam.
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Equitable Life Assurance Society v. Brown, 187 U. S. 308, 314; Consolidated Turnpike Co. v. Norfolk, etc., Ry. Co., 228 U. S. 596, 600; Manhattan Life Insurance Co. v. Cohen, 234 U. S. 123, 137; Easterling Lumber Co. v. Pierce, 235 U. S. 380. See Hamilton Company v. Massachusetts, 6 Wall. 632.