Case Name: Bar Association of the City of Boston vs. John Patrick Connolly
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1939-12-29
Citations: 304 Mass. 676
Docket Number: 
Parties: Bar Association of the City of Boston vs. John Patrick Connolly.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 304
Pages: 676–676

Head Matter:
Bar Association of the City of Boston vs. John Patrick Connolly.

Opinion:
Upon an information by the Bar Association of the City of Boston alleging that the public good of the Commonwealth required the removal of John Patrick Connolly from his office as Clerk of the Superior Court for the County of Suffolk, for civil business, the following order was made:
Now on this twelfth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine, by and before a majority of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, namely, Fred T. Field, Chief Justice, and Charles H. Donahue, Hénry T. Lummus, Arthur W. Dolan and Louis S. Cox, Associate Justices, upon the information brought by the Bar Association of the City of Boston against John Patrick Connolly, it being made to appear to said court that the said John Patrick Connolly has resigned the office of Clerk of the Superior Court for the County of Suffolk, for civil business, and has ceased to hold said office, and that a successor to him in said office has been duly appointed and has duly qualified and now holds said office, and that this proceeding has thereby become moot: therefore
It is considered by said court, all of said Justices concurring and they being a majority of all the Justices of said court, that said information be and is hereby dismissed without prejudice. " " "
" " " Fred T. Field,
Chief Justice. Charles H. Donahue, Henry T. Lummus,
Arthur W. Dolan,
Louis S. Cox,
Associate Justices.