Case law

Parady v. Lewis

338 Mass. 800 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 2, 1959

poor health and the house being in need of repair, he asked the plaintiffs Theodore and Sarah Parady (husband and wife) to come and live with him under the following arrangement: The plaintiffs were to supply Makinen with board … Dixon v. Lamson, 242 Mass. 129, 137 . Hollister v. Old Colony Trust Co. 328 Mass. 225, 228 .

Earle v. Commonwealth

180 Mass. 579 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 28, 1902

Metropolitan Water Board, 178 Mass. 267 , the provision is constitutional, that we prefer to say so without stopping to consider whether the question is open. See Opinion of Justices, 175 Mass. 599 ; Town of Guilford v. … Supervisors of Chenango County, 3 Kernan, 143, 149; Blanding v. Burr, 13 Cal. 343 ; United States v. Realty Co. 163 U. S. 427; Guthrie National Bank v. Guthrie, 173 U. S. 528, 536 , 537 ; New Orleans v. Clark, 95 U.

Griffin v. Kitchen

225 Mass. 331 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 5, 1916

Hale v. Marsh, 100 Mass. 468 . Welsh v. Woodbury, 144 Mass. 542 . American Baptist Publication Society v. Lufkin, 197 Mass. 221 . All the property which should remain at the death of the wife was given to the plaintiff. … Phelps v. Lowell Institution for Savings, 214 Mass. 560 . Blodgett v. Ahern, 217 Mass. 262 .

Vallavanti v. Armour & Co.

260 Mass. 417 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 30, 1927

Stone v. … There was nothing in the runabout to indicate that it was being used in the defendant’s business, as there was in Breen v. Dedham Water Co. 241 Mass. 217 . The case is controlled in principle by Seaboyer v.

Bonin v. Ballard

196 Mass. 524 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 26, 1907

Feeney v. York Manuf. Co. 189 Mass. 336 . They were like the pile of boards in Campbell v. Dearborn, 175 Mass. 183 . This pile was not intended to be itself used by the workmen, like the staging in Prendible v. … Davis v. Forbes, 171 Mass. 548 . Kanz v. Page, 168 Mass. 217, 218 . Duffy v. New York, New Haven, & Hartford Railroad, 192 Mass. 28 . Stuart v. West End Street Railway, 163 Mass. 391 .

Commonwealth v. City of Roxbury

75 Mass. 451 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 15, 1857

Chapman v. Kimball, 9 Conn. 88 . Simons v. French, 25 Conn. 346 . Gough v. Bell, 1 Zab. 156 ; 2 Zab. 441; 3 Zab. 624. State v. Jersey City, 1 Dutcher, 525. State v. Brown, 3 Dutcher, 13. … Parker v. Cutler Milldam, 20 Maine, 358. Moulton v. Libbey, 37 Maine, 472. Preble v. Brown , 47 Maine, 286.

Commonwealth v. LeClair

429 Mass. 313 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 9, 1999

Commonwealth v. Andrade, 422 Mass. 236, 237-238 (1996). Commonwealth v. Brown, 387 Mass. 220, 228 (1982). … Commonwealth v. Brown, supra at 228 . “Assuming the truth of these statements, they do not, in the circumstances, rise to the level of a ‘sudden provocation’ sufficient to reduce murder to manslaughter.” Id.

Marcienowski v. Sanders

252 Mass. 65 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Apr 15, 1925

Massaletti v. Fitzroy, 228 Mass. 487 . Flynn v. Lewis, 231 Mass. 550 . Barry v. Harding, 244 Mass. 588 . O’Leary v. Fash, 245 Mass. 123 . … Massaletti v. Fitzroy, supra. O’Leary v. Fash, supra. Altman v. Aronson, 231 Mass. 588 . It is sufficient to say that gross negligence is a degree of negligence much greater than ordinary negligence.

Peterson v. Hopson

306 Mass. 597 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 17, 1940

The trustees were authorized to create, elect, remove and abolish a board of directors, of not less than five nor more than fifteen persons, which should exercise all the powers of the trustees as to management. … It was provided that “the trustees shall not be personally liable to any shareholder, director, creditor or otherwise for any action so taken by them pursuant to the directions of the board of directors nor for any action

Fryer v. Department of Public Utilities

374 Mass. 685 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 21, 1978

Comm’n v. Department of Pub. … Southbridge Water Supply Co. v. Department of Pub.

Commonwealth v. Lombard

321 Mass. 294 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 27, 1947

Commonwealth v. McCaughey, 9 Gray, 296 . Hinckley v. Retirement Board of Gloucester, 316 Mass. 496, 500 . … Commonwealth v. Harris, 101 Mass. 29 . Commonwealth v. Goodall, 165 Mass. 588 . Commonwealth v. Broadland, 315 Mass. 20 . But see forms of indictments in G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 277, at page 3250.

Heinrich-Grundy v. Allstate Insurance

402 Mass. 810 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jul 12, 1988

Brown, 63 Cal. 2d 508, 510 (1965); Fischer v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 495 So. 2d 909, 910 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1986); State Farm Auto. Ins. Co. v. Cabuzzi, 123 N.H. 451 (1983); Marchant v. South Carolina Ins. … Co. v. McKee, 27 Ariz. App. 158 (1976); Kvalheim v. Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co., 195 N.W. 2d 726 (Iowa 1972); and American Casualty Co. v. Foster, 31 Misc.2d. 818 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1961). But see Cashman v.

Galvin v. Beals

187 Mass. 250 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 6, 1905

Bowe v. Hunking, 135 Mass. 380 . Tuttle v. Gilbert Manuf. Co. 145 Mass. 169 . McKeon v. Cutter, 156 Mass. 296 . McLean v. Fiske Wharf & Warehouse Co. 158 Mass. 472 . Marley v. Wheelwright, 172 Mass. 530 . … Hutchinson v. Cummings, 156 Mass. 329 . Marley v. Wheelwright, 172 Mass. 530 . The plaintiff seeks to bring this case within Gill v.

Brigade Leveraged Capital Structures Fund Ltd. v. PIMCO Income Strategy Fund

466 Mass. 368 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 11, 2013

See MM Cos. v. … See ER Holdings, Inc. v. Norton, Co., supra at 1101 (“The Board’s suggestion that its proffered special meeting does not endanger shareholder voting rights, but merely delays them, misses the point.

Perkins v. Hilton

329 Mass. 291 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 12, 1952

Brown v. Peterson, 27 Ariz. 418, 422 . Alsworth v. Cordtz, 31 Miss. 32, 35 . Higgins v. Higgins, 55 Mo. 346 . Keely v. Gregg, 33 Mont. 216, 225 . Jackson v. Miller, 6 Wend. 228 . Restatement: Trusts, § 444, comment d. … Young v. Hampton, 36 Cal. (2d) 799. Diamond v. Willett, 37 So. (2d) 338 (La. App. 1948). Compare Ewing v. Ford, 31 Wash. (2d) 126. And see generally Caines v. Sawyer, 248 Mass. 368, 374 ; Council v.

Carney v. Dewing

64 Mass. 498 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 15, 1852

Fitch v. Workman, 9 Met. 517 . … After the decision in Brown v. Bullen, 1 Doug. 408 , it was very common to proceed by action of assumpsit, until the enactment of the St. of 49 Geo.

Brainard v. Boston & New York Central Railroad

78 Mass. 407 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 15, 1859

Brainard, addressed to the board of aldermen of the city of Boston, praying for an assessment of his damages sustained by the location and construction of the railroad of the respondents. … O'Linda v. Lothrop, 21 Pick. 292 . Tufts v. Charlestown, 2 Gray, 271 . But nothing of that kind was shown or appeared upon the trial.

Howland v. Inhabitants of Greenfield

231 Mass. 147 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 10, 1918

Fuller v. County Commissioners, 15 Pick. 81 . Seymour v. Carter, 2 Met. 520 . Pickford v. Mayor & Aldermen of Lynn, 98 Mass. 491 . Noyes v. City Council of Springfield, 116 Mass. 87 . Collins v. … Fitchburg, 121 Mass. 132 , Grace v. Newton Board of Health, 135 Mass. 490 , and Wood v. Milton, 197 Mass. 531 , are plainly distinguishable.

C. B. Ensign & Co. v. Forrest

251 Mass. 296 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 24, 1925

In Buzzell v. … Board of Education, 54 Vroom, 446 . The recent case of Manker v. American Savings Bank & Trust Go. 131 Wash. 430 is not in conflict.

Daignault v. Berkshire Street Railway Co.

277 Mass. 227 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Dec 1, 1931

Casey v. Boston Elevated Railway, 197 Mass. 440 . Adams v. Boston Elevated Railway, 219 Mass. 515 . O’Callaghan v. Boston Elevated Railway, 249 Mass. 43 . Tobin v. Nahant & Lynn Street Railway, 260 Mass. 512 . … Welsh v. Concord, Maynard & Hudson Street Railway, 223 Mass. 184,186 . Tobin v. Nahant & Lynn Street Railway, 260 Mass. 512, 514 .