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  • Reed v. Howard

    43 Mass. 36 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 15, 1840

    Ashmun v. Williams, 8 Pick. 402 . Hemmenway v. Wheeler, 14 Pick. 408 . … Melville v. Brown, 15 Mass. 82 . Heydon v. Heydon, 1 Salk. 392.

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  • Ward v. Jenkins

    51 Mass. 583 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 15, 1846

    Cases of this character are found in Brown v. Cuming, 2 Caines, 33 ; Barstow v. Adams, 2 Day, 70; Assignees of Barclay v. Carson, 2 Hayw. 243 ; Kelly v. Holdship, 1 Browne, 36 ; and Sullivan v. Bridge, 1 Mass. 511 . … In Laflin v.

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  • Bradley's Case

    269 Mass. 399 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 16, 1929

    This is an appeal by the insurer from a decree of the Superior Court, entered after a decision of the Industrial Accident Board. … Marsh v. Beraldi, 260 Mass. 225, 231 .

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  • Commonwealth v. Benesch

    290 Mass. 125 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 6, 1935

    People v. Powell, 63 N. Y. 88 . Landen v. United States, 299 Fed. Rep. 75. See Commonwealth v. Adams, 114 Mass. 323 ; Vogel v. Brown, 201 Mass. 261 ; People v. Flack, 125 N. Y. 324 . … See Wills v. Noyes, 12 Pick. 324 ; Vogel v. Brown, 201 Mass. 261 ; Commonwealth v. Brisbois, 281 Mass. 125 .

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  • Commonwealth v. Martin

    130 Mass. 465 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 24, 1881

    Clarke v. Minot, 4 Met. 346, 350 . In re Brown's trusts, L. R. 5 Eq. 88.

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  • Norton v. Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation

    298 Mass. 266 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 17, 1937

    The facts are substantially the same, and the applicable law is the same, in this case as in Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation, ante, 263. … The appellant is to recover the costs before the board and the costs of this appeal. So ordered.

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  • Padelford v. Padelford

    159 Mass. 281 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 9, 1893

    It did not apply, and never did, to divorces from bed and board. … Pidge v. Pidge, 3 Met. 257 . Fera v. Fera, 98 Mass. 155 . There can be no doubt that St. 1857, c. 228, § 2, was passed in consequence of the decision in Pidge v. Pidge, ubi supra.

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  • Watts v. Rhodes

    325 Mass. 697 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 28, 1950

    Mello v. Peabody, 305 Mass. 373 . Hebb v. Gould, 314 Mass. 10, 15 . Elwell v. Athol, ante, 41. … Hebb v. Gould, 314 Mass. 10 ; 13, 14. The failure to state the place of the injury, and possibly the cause of the injury, constituted omissions, and not in-accuracies. Brown v. Winthrop, 275 Mass. 43, 46 . Merrill v.

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  • Commonwealth v. Glowacki

    398 Mass. 507 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 3, 1986

    Commonwealth v. White, 353 Mass. 409, 424 (1967), cert. denied, 391 U.S. 968 (1968). Commonwealth v. Green, 302 Mass. 547, 556 (1939). Commonwealth v. Madeiros, 255 Mass. 304, 315 (1926). Commonwealth v. … This case is unlike Commonwealth v.

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  • Scola v. Director of the Division of Employment Security

    326 Mass. 180 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 29, 1950

    Each petition seeks a review by a District Court of a decision of the board of review, which affirmed *181 the respondent’s determination under § 12 that the petitioners are employers subject to that law. … See Gill v. Richmond *182 Co-operative Association, Inc. 309 Mass. 73, 83 . Compare Summers v. Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. 301 Mass. 167, 169 ; Harrington & Richardson Arms Co. v.

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  • Commonwealth v. Stevens

    155 Mass. 291 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 6, 1892

    Commonwealth v. Brown, 124 Mass. 318 . … Commonwealth v. Putnam, 4 Gray, 16 . Commonwealth v. Wachendorf, 141 Mass. 270 . Commonwealth v. Briant, 142 Mass. 463 . Commonwealth v. Stevenson, 142 Mass. 466 . Commonwealth v. Hayes, 145 Mass. 289 . Commonwealth v.

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  • Frawley v. Forrest

    310 Mass. 446 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 30, 1941

    L. 255 (see cases collected); Brown v. Bowen, 30 N. Y. 519 ; Schaufele v. Doyle, 86 Cal. 107, 110 ; Cherry v. Canal Co. 140 N. C. 422 ; Robertson’s Administrator v. Rodes, 52 Ky. 325 ; Webb v. Jones, 163 Ala. 637 . … If the life tenant was a necessary party (see Ingraham v. Dunnell, 5 Met. 118 , 125; Cadigan v. Brown, 120 Mass. 493, 494-495 ), that question has not been raised. Warecki v.

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  • In the Matter of Dwyer-Jones

    470 Mass. 582 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 5, 2015

    Rule 4:01, § 12 (3), as appearing in 425 Mass. 1313 (1997), and the matter was remanded to the board for further proceedings. … See Bar Counsel v. Board of Bar Overseers, 420 Mass. 6, 9-11 (1995) ("offensive use of collateral estoppel is appropriate in bar disciplinary proceedings").

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  • Smith v. Edison Electric Illuminating Co.

    198 Mass. 330 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 3, 1908

    Walker Ice Co. v. American Steel & Wire Co. 185 Mass. 463 . No right was conferred to interfere with the rights or safety of travellers upon the street. … See Turner v. Page, 186 Mass. 600 . Exceptions overruled.

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  • McAllister's Case

    229 Mass. 193 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 5, 1918

    Carnig v. Carr, 167 Mass. 544 . … Coughlan v. Cambridge, 166 Mass. 268, 277 . Samuelian v. American Tool & Machine Co. 168 Mass. 12 . Driscoll v. Towle, 181 Mass. 416, 419 . Wakefield v. Boston Coal Co. 197 Mass. 527 . Bowie v.

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  • Balukonis v. Lithuanian Roman Catholic Benefit Society of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus

    272 Mass. 366 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 18, 1930

    Hill v. Rauhan Aarre, 200 Mass. 438, 439 . Kane v. Shields, 167 Mass. 392 . Hanson v. Mayers, 243 Mass. 25, 28 . … See McFadden v. Murphy, 149 Mass. 341, 344, 345 ; Sabourin v. Lippe, supra. The case at bar in its essential features is controlled by McFadden v.

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  • Commonwealth v. Bresilla

    470 Mass. 422 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 16, 2015

    In the path of flight described by numerous witnesses, the police found the defendant's discarded brown leather jacket. … Other witnesses variously recalled seeing a brown leather jacket, a black leather jacket, a "bubble" jacket, or no jacket at all.

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  • Finnish Temperance Society Sovittaja v. Raivaaja Publishing Co.

    219 Mass. 28 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 22, 1914

    Boston Diatite Co. v. Florence Manuf. Co. 114 Mass. 69 . The remedy is by an action at law for damages. Raymond v. Russell, 143 Mass. 295, 296 . … Miller v. Butler, 6 Cush. 71 , 74.

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  • Martin v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

    262 Mass. 542 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 1, 1928

    Sullivan v. Boston Elevated Railway, 224 Mass. 405 . Lotus v. Boston Elevated Railway, 261 Mass. 233 . … Stanley v. Boston Elevated Railway, 248 Mass. 494 . Alward v. Boston Elevated Railway, 250 Mass. 244 . Dullea v. Boston Elevated Railway, 251 Mass. 56 . Judgment for defendant on the verdict.

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  • Glidden v. Nason

    186 Mass. 140 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 22, 1904

    The evidence in .this case warranted a finding that the mortgage covered not only the furniture used by the former occupant of the ISTason House in carrying it on as a boarding house, and bought by the defendants for the … It is not necessary to consider whether the doctrine applied to the exemption from taxation of household furniture to the amount of |1,000 in Day v. Lawrence, 167 Mass. 371 , applies to R. L. c. 102, § 53.

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