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138 Mass. 114 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 6, 1884
Coupal v. Ward, 106 Mass. 289 . Exceptions overruled.
Cited 14 timesPublished105 Mass. 551 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 15, 1870
This was in form and in legal effect a conveyance of the title to Brown. … In August 1867 he first took measures towards rescinding his conveyance to Brown.
Cited 55 timesPublished130 Mass. 279 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 29, 1881
Commonwealth v. Nichols, 114 Mass. 285 . Commonwealth v. Robinson, 1 Gray, 555 . … Commonwealth v. Blair, 126 Mass. 40 . Exceptions overruled.
Cited 18 timesPublished116 Mass. 504 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 12, 1875
Doherty v. Brown, 10 Gray, 250 . Payson v. Macomber, 3 Allen, 69 , 72. 3. … Stone v. Varney, supra. Leonard v. Allen, supra. Wright v. Schroeder, 2 Curtis, 548. M’Nutt v. Young, 8 Leigh, 542 . M’Cabe v. Platter, 6 Blackf. 405 . Sanders v. Johnson, Ib. 50. Regnier v. Cabot, 2 Gilm. 34 , 40.
Cited 22 timesPublished1 Mass. 208 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 15, 1804
Brown, who was merely the agent of the public ? Reason and justice forbid it. … But it is said that the defendant in error performed the services at the request of Brown, and therefore Brown is personally liable.
Cited 17 timesPublished107 Mass. 364 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 15, 1871
Lake v. Clark, 97 Mass. 346 . Rich v. Jones, 9 Cush. 329 . … Brown v. Castles, 11 Cush. 348 . Gorden v. Parmelee, 2 Allen, 212 . Veasey v. Doton, 3 Allen, 380 . Mooney v. Miller, 102 Mass. 217 . Exceptions overruled.
Cited 29 timesPublished8 Mass. 59 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 15, 1811
Cited 30 timesPublished13 Mass. 201 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 15, 1816
Brown et al., 16 Mass. Rep. 178
Cited 32 timesPublished121 Mass. 69 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Oct 20, 1876
Ricker v. Cutter, 8 Gray, 248 . Krebs v. Oliver, 12 Gray, 239 . Smith v. Faulkner, 12 Gray, 251 . … Brown v. Pease, 104 Mass. 291, 308 .
Cited 81 timesPublished4 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 timesPublished98 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 timesPublished32 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 timesPublished449 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 timesPublished212 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 timesPublished12 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 timesPublished120 Mass. 493 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Sep 7, 1876
Thus in Parker v. … So in Ballou v.
Cited 42 timesPublished125 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 timesPublished4 Mass. 436 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 15, 1808
Cited 14 timesPublished4 Mass. 443 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 15, 1808
Cited 25 timesPublished60 Mass. 560 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 15, 1850
In Nye v. … In Belknap v.
Cited 18 timesPublished
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