COUNTY OF BARNSTABLE v. COMMONWEALTH


422 Mass. 33 (1996)

COUNTY OF BARNSTABLE & others vs. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 9, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul R. DeRensis (John Foskett with him) for the plaintiffs.

Judith Fabricant, Assistant Attorney General (Kristin E. McIntosh, Assistant Attorney General, with her) for the Commonwealth.

Present: WILKINS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, O'CONNOR, GREANEY, & FRIED, JJ.


GREANEY, J.

On September 25, 1990, eleven counties and the town of Nantucket filed this action in the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County pursuant to G.L.c. 211, § 3 (1994 ed.). The counties sought a judgment requiring the Commonwealth to pay them the full amount of contract rent for leased courthouse buildings, despite the lack of appropriated funds sufficient to do so. A single justice of this court denied the requested relief and ordered the case transferred...

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