Case Name: Herbert Lord vs. Mary T. Fiorenza & others
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1955-06-03
Citations: 332 Mass. 757
Docket Number: 
Parties: Herbert Lord vs. Mary T. Fiorenza & others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 332
Pages: 757–757

Head Matter:
Herbert Lord vs. Mary T. Fiorenza & others.
June 3, 1955.
Herbert Lord, pro se.
James Levensohn, for the defendant Fiorenza.
George S. Parker, for the defendants Selectmen of Winchester.
Frederick W. Mansfield, for the defendants Immaculate Conception Parish of Winchester and others.

Opinion:
Orders sustaining demurrers affirmed. This is a bill in equity to enjoin the defendant Fiorenza from leasing a certain parcel of land in the town of Winchester for use as a gasoline filling station and to enjoin the defendant board of selectmen of the said town from issuing a permit for the storage of gasoline and oil on the said parcel. The plaintiff, who is described in the bill as one who "has a buyer, ready, able and willing to buy the said land and deed it" to a neighboring church, appeals from orders sustaining the defendants' demurrers. The plaintiff concedes that the bill cannot be regarded as a taxpayers' petition to restrain illegal expenditures. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 40, § 53. His present contention that the bill may be maintained on the theory of a resulting trust based upon an oral promise made in 1935 to one now deceased by Caroline J. Murray, a former owner, also now deceased, cannot be upheld. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 203, § 1. Sprague v. Kimball, 213 Mass. 380. It is unnecessary to enumerate other fatal defects in the bill.