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  • Freto v. Brown

    4 Mass. 675 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 15, 1808

    The action is assumpsit by Freto, a minor, who was fifteen years old in 1805, to recover of Brown his earnings in Brown’s service during that year.

    Cited 22 timesPublished
  • Hurley v. Brown

    98 Mass. 545 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 15, 1868

    Brown, being a married woman, was incapable of binding herself personally by a common contract. … Farwell v.

    Cited 89 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Russell

    32 L.R.A. 253 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 25, 1896

    of a certain class to office in preference to all other persons, whether they are or are not thought to be qualified for the office by the appointing power, or by some public officer or some impartial and disinterested board … The meaning of this article was somewhat considered in Hewitt v. Charier, 16 Pick. 353 , and it was held that St. 1818, c. 113, was not in violation of the article.

    Cited 81 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Brown

    449 Mass. 747 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Aug 29, 2007

    Brown gave Bobbitt $280 cash, 12 and the two men boarded a bus to travel from the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston to the Bob Smith’s Sporting Goods store in downtown Boston. … v.

    Cited 37 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Thayer

    212 Mass. 392 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 19, 1912

    Carroll v. Boston Elevated Railway, 200 Mass. 527, 533 . Thomson v. Pentecost, 206 Mass. 505, 510 . Commonwealth v. Brayman, 136 Mass. 438 . Parker v. Boston & Hingham Steamboat Co. 109 Mass. 449, 451 . … Commonwealth v. Boston & Maine Railroad, 133 Mass. 383 . Kelley v. Boston & Maine Railroad, 135 Mass. 448 . Brooks v.

    Cited 46 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Delano

    12 Mass. 370 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 15, 1815

    Brown was not a competent witness. 2. … The first objection has, very properly, been abandoned ; it being manifest that Brown was merely an agent, without any interest in the transaction.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Cadigan v. Brown

    120 Mass. 493 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 7, 1876

    Thus in Parker v. … So in Ballou v.

    Cited 42 timesPublished
  • Brown v. French

    125 Mass. 410 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 3, 1878

    In the leading case of Harvard College v. … Lovell v. *416 Minot, 20 Pick. 116 . Kinmonth v. Brigham, 5 Allen, 270 , 277. Clark v. Garfield, 8 Allen, 427 . If a more strict and precise rule should be deemed expedient, it must be enacted by the Legislature.

    Cited 25 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Chase

    4 Mass. 436 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 15, 1808

    Cited 14 timesPublished
  • Kelleran v. Brown

    4 Mass. 443 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 15, 1808

    Cited 25 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Webber

    60 Mass. 560 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 15, 1850

    In Nye v. … In Belknap v.

    Cited 18 timesPublished
  • Underwood v. Brown

    106 Mass. 298 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 15, 1871

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Brown

    150 Mass. 330 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 31, 1889

    The witness Brown, having testified that he did not remember the supposed admission of guilt by the defendant, might properly be asked, as preliminary to further inquiries, if he did not make a statement in respect to it … Melhuish v. Collier, 15 Q. B. 878. Bullard v. Pearsall, 53 N. Y. 230 .

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Porter

    10 Mass. 93 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 15, 1813

    Cited 37 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Dean

    123 Mass. 254 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 18, 1877

    Pritchard v. Hennessey, 1 Gray, 294 . Commonwealth v. Carrington, 116 Mass. 37, 39 . … Root v. Sherwood, 6 Johns. 68 . Blackley v. Sheldon, 7 Johns. 32 . Goodwin v. Appleton, 22 Maine, 453. Warner v. New York Central Railroad, 52 N. Y. 437 .

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Babcock

    3 Mass. 29 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 15, 1807

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Gilman

    13 Mass. 158 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 15, 1816

    Cited 19 timesPublished
  • Bassett v. Brown

    100 Mass. 355 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 15, 1868

    Pratt v. Pond, 5 Allen, 59 . Martin v. Graves, Ib. 601. In Whittemore v. … Pool v. Lloyd, 5 Met. 528 . Demurrer sustained. Bill dismissed, without prejudice.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Brown

    364 Mass. 471 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 28, 1973

    Roger Brown and John H. … L. c. 127, § 38B. 1 The jury found Tarrant not *472 guilty, but Brown guilty, and Brown was sentenced to one to two years at Walpole following completion of his current sentence.

    Cited 89 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Nye

    12 Mass. 284 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 15, 1815

    Cited 3 timesPublished

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