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  • Gale v. Lawyers Mortgage Investment Corp.

    4 Mass. App. Div. 476 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Nov 7, 1939

    In Davis v. Gay, 141 Mass. 531 the “Hotel Huntington” was not an inn. In Coe v. Ricker, 214 Mass. 212 , the “Silver Beach Hotel” was found to be a boarding house. In Carpenter v. Taylor, 1 Hilton (N. … If the business carried on by him was. that of a boarding house or restaurant merely, he would not thereby be subjected to the liability of an innkeeper. Story Bailments 475.

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  • Swartz v. Sher

    21 Mass. App. Dec. 115 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · May 12, 1961

    First African Methodist Episcopal Society v. Brown, 147 Mass. 296, 298 . … Sturtevant v. Jaques, 14 Allen 523 . While it is true that *119 Mr. Justice Holmes in Swasey v.

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  • Moreland v. Old King's Highway Regional Historic District Commission

    1990 Mass. App. Div. 166 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Sep 28, 1990

    Anderson et al. v. Old King’s Highway Regional Historic District Commission, 1985 Mass. App. Div. 128 (citing Gumley v. Board of Selectmen of Nantucket, 371 Mass. 718 (1977); MacGibbon v. … Board of Appeals of Duxbury, 369 Mass. 512 (1976)).

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  • Frankston v. Ferme

    2007 Mass. App. Div. 203 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Dec 12, 2007

    Brown v. Quinn, 406 Mass. 641, 644 (1990). It is an equally rudimentary tenet of appellate practice that the duty to expedite an appeal falls squarely and exclusively on the appellant, Hawkins v. … Arequipeno v. Hall, 2000 Mass. App. Div. 97, 99 .

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  • Keikian v. Norwegian Cruise Line

    2004 Mass. App. Div. 91 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Jun 7, 2004

    Keikian and his wife boarded the Norwegian Sun and embarked on their cruise on December 29,2001. … Compare Wallis v.

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  • Ashley v. Boch Toyota, Inc.

    1992 Mass. App. Div. 35 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Mar 4, 1992

    Soutier v. Kaplow, 330 Mass. 448, 450 (1953); Leshefsky v. American Employers’ Ins. Co., 293 Mass 164, 167 (1936). See Heil v. McCann, 360 Mass. 507, 511 (1971), and cases cited. … See Leardi v. Brown, 394 Mass. 151, 157-160 (1985). Prejudicial error is found in the denial of defendant!s motion to amend judgment by reducing the award to nominal damages.

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  • Arequipeno v. Hall

    2000 Mass. App. Div. 97 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Apr 12, 2000

    Co. v. Boyle, 422 Mass. 1011, 1012 (1996); Ross v. Health & Retirement Prop. Tr., 46 Mass. App. Ct. 82 , 86 n.6 (1998); Baybank v. DiRico, 1996 Mass. App. Div. 30 n.1 . … Jones v. Manns, 33 Mass. App. Ct. 485, 492 (1992). See also Brown v. Quinn, 406 Mass. 641, 645 (1990); Krupp v. Gulf Oil Corp., 29 Mass. App. Ct. 116, 119 (1990).

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  • Barber v. O'Connor

    1989 Mass. App. Div. 162 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Jul 28, 1989

    See Cape Cod Bank & Trust Co. v. … A most compelling expression of the growing conviction that appellants should not be mechanically denied appellate review if to be found in Brown v. Quinn, 27 Mass. App.

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  • Bouvier v. Bouvier

    11 Mass. App. Dec. 120 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Apr 11, 1956

    The sole issue presented for determination is how far to extend the decision in Mendes v. Costa, 326 Mass. 608 . … See: Theriault v. Pierce, 307 Mass. 532, 534 . Joseph A. DiGuglielmo, for the plaintiff. Paul J. Dolan, for the defendant.

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  • Tucker v. Diamond

    2010 Mass. App. Div. 253 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Dec 2, 2010

    See Woldridge v. Hickey, 45 Mass. App. Ct. 637 (1992); Brown v. Perkins, 2001 Mass. App. … Leaving aside the fact that Massachusetts law does not recognize anticipatory breach of contract, Daniels v.

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  • Goldman v. Giroux

    1985 Mass. App. Div. 210 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Oct 16, 1985

    Stella v. Curtis, 348 Mass. 458, 462 . 7. … Memishian v. Phipps, 311 Mass. 521, 525 .

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  • Mechanical Service Engineers, Inc. v. Fineberg Management, Inc.

    1999 Mass. App. Div. 109 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · May 11, 1999

    Volin v. Board of Public Accountancy, 422 Mass. 175 , 182 n.6 (1996). 4. Substitution of a party is permitted in the court’s discretion, Bay Colony Constr. Co. v. Norwell, 5 Mass. App. … Perkins School for the Blind v. Rate Setting Comm’n, 383 Mass. 825, 830 (1981); Cox v. Board of Appeals of Carver, 42 Mass. App. Ct. 422, 424 (1997).

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  • Thompson v. Keene

    13 Mass. App. Div. 88 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Mar 3, 1948

    Browne the defendant’s doctor in September, 1945 or about eight months after the accident. An X-ray was taken by Dr. … Brodeur v. Seymour, 315 Mass. 527 ; Strong v. Haverhill Elec. Co., 299 Mass. 455 ; Indemnity Ins. Co. v. Paige, 299 Mass. 523, 528 ; Marquis v. Messier, 303 Mass. 553 ; Timmins v. Joslin Co., 303 Mass. 540 .

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  • Gallagher v. Roach

    1982 Mass. App. Div. 279 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Nov 15, 1982

    Capodilupo v. Petringa, 5 Mass. App. Ct. 893, 894-895 (1977) and cases cited. See also Nightingale v. Board of Appeals of Methuen, 7 Mass. App. Ct. 887 (1979). … See Twomey v. Board of Appeals, 7 Mass. App. Ct. 770, 776, n. 11 (1979); Third Nat'l Bk. of Hampden Cty. v. Mason, Mass. App. Div. Adv. Sh. (1978) 286 , 293.

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  • Miranda v. Pilevsky

    1989 Mass. App. Div. 206 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Oct 31, 1989

    Wing v. Liziewski, 59 Mass. App. Dec. 30, 33 (1976). See Brown v. Quinn, 27 Mass. App. Ct. 288 (1989). … See Hough v. City of Newton , at 11; Old Colony Bank of Worcester v. Miller, 1986 Mass. App. Div. 202 , 205.

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  • Paquette v. Premier Insurance

    2000 Mass. App. Div. 250 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Sep 18, 2000

    Feltch v. General Rental Co., 383 Mass. 603, 613 (1981).” Oyegbola v. DeSimone, supra at n.17 . … Although “[i]t is the obligation of counsel, not of the clerk, to monitor the progress of their cases,” Brown v.

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  • Town of Brookline v. Doyle

    18 Mass. App. Dec. 29 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Sep 7, 1959

    Adams v. Adams, 348 Mo. 1041 ; Howlett v. Social Sec. Comm., 347 Mo. 784 ; Brackob v. Brackob, 265 Wisc. 513; Shaver v. Brierton, 1 Ill. App. 2nd 192; McEntyre v. Jones, 128 Colo. 461 . … Boston v. C., 322 Mass. 181 . Each Board of Public Welfare shall establish a Bureau of Old Age Assistance. In §2 of c. 118A it is provided that no action shall be brought under c. 273, §20 of the Gen.

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  • Hegarty v. Guindon

    11 Mass. App. Dec. 189 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Jun 4, 1956

    In Gray v. … Lorando v. Gethro, 228 Mass. 181, 188 . Gelfert v. National City Bank, 313 U.S. 221 . Wood v. Lovett, 313 U.

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  • Commonwealth v. Sasu

    1988 Mass. App. Div. 21 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Jan 25, 1988

    Walden v. Board of Registration in Nursing, 395 Mass. 263, 266 (1985), collecting the following cases: “Leary v. United States, 395 U.S. 6 (1969) (marihuana registration and tax); Haynes v. … United States, 390 U.S. 39 (1968) (same); Albertson v. Subversive Control Board, 382 U.S. 70 (1965) (requirement that all members of the Communist Party register).

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  • Piccadaci v. Crystal Construction Corp.

    2003 Mass. App. Div. 135 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Aug 25, 2003

    Berube v. McKesson Wine & Spirits Co., 7 Mass. App. Ct. 426, 429 (1979); Bird v. Ross, 393 Mass. 789 (1985). … Brown v. Quinn, 406 Mass. 641, 645 (1990), citing Mailer v. Mailer, 387 Mass. 401, 406 (1982).

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