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  • Brake & Electric Sales Corporation v. United States

    185 F. Supp. 1 · District Court, D. Massachusetts · Jul 18, 1960

    Crown Iron Works Company v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 8 Cir., 245 F.2d 357, 359 . … The situation here seems closely comparable to that in Gooding Amusement Company v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 6 Cir., 236 F.2d 159 , and Ryan Contracting Co. v. Commissioner, P-H.T.C.

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  • Walker v. Boston Insurance

    80 Mass. 288 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 15, 1859

    A similar view of the provisions of the English statute is taken by Parke, B., in the case of Brown v. … In Brown v.

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  • Goldberg v. Goldberg

    7 Mass. App. Ct. 831 · Massachusetts Appeals Court · Jun 28, 1979

    Brown, J. … Board of Health of No. Adams v. Mayor of No. Adams, 368 Mass. 554, 568 (1975). Judgment affirmed. 1 Henry as well as Frances submitted a form of proposed final judgment.

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  • Clapp v. Atwood

    300 Mass. 540 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 28, 1938

    Brown v. Bailey, 1 Met. 254, 257 . DeWitt v. Harvey, 4 Gray, 486 , 491. Tainter v. Cole, 120 Mass. 162, 164 . Barnes v. Boardman, 157 Mass. 479, 480 . This rule was applied to grants of easements in Clark v. … See Cressey v. Cressey, 215 Mass. 65, 67 . Mrs. Brown is also entitled to registration free of the easement.

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  • Gut v. MacDonough

    23 Mass. L. Rptr. 110 · Massachusetts Superior Court · Aug 20, 2007

    See Harhen v. Brown, 431 Mass. 838, 844-45 (2000). See also Seidman v. Cent. Bancorp, Inc., 16 Mass. L. Rptr. 383 , 2003 WL 21528509 (Mass.Super. No. 030547 BLS; 030554BLS and 032287BLS 2003). … Harhen v. Brown, 431 Mass. 838, 865 (2000). However, some transactions involve a higher risk of abuse of fiduciary duty and warrant higher judicial scrutiny. See Coggins v.

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  • Sylvester v. Commissioner of Revenue

    445 Mass. 304 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 16, 2005

    The plaintiff has not demonstrated that, in violation of art. 6, the veterans’ exemption imposes “privileges attributed to birth,” see Brown v. … Russell, 166 Mass. 14, 22 (1896), concerns public employment or office, see Opinion of the Justices, 303 Mass. 631, 654 (1939); Brown v.

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  • Olson v. Ela

    8 Mass. App. Ct. 165 · Massachusetts Appeals Court · Jul 27, 1979

    Brown, J. By this action commenced in the Superior Court the plaintiff seeks to recover damages for injuries she sustained in an automobile accident involving her and the defendant. … Ott v. Board of Registration in Medicine, 276 Mass. 566, 574 (1931).

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  • Cobb v. Tracy

    22 Mass. App. Dec. 176 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Dec 4, 1961

    for at least seven years prior to the time of the signing of the agreement of sale; that said drainage pipe had been used by the town of Rockland for at least seven years to carry off excess surface waters and that the Board … First African Methodist Episcopal Soc. v. Brown, 147 Mass. 296, 298 . The title must be "free from obvious defects, and' substántial doubts.” O’Meara v. Gleason, 246 Mass. 136, 138.

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  • Commonwealth v. Norman

    27 Mass. App. Ct. 82 · Massachusetts Appeals Court · Mar 6, 1989

    In Brown v. … See Commonwealth v. McGann, 20 Mass. App. Ct. 59, 61-62 (1985). To be sure, Brown v.

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  • American Hawaiian Steampship Co. v. Columbia Cornice Co.

    3 Mass. App. Div. 2 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Dec 23, 1937

    Brown v. London &c. Indemnity Company, 249 Mass. 511, 515 . Grover v. Smead, Mass. Adv. Sh. (1936) 1355. … This was done with boards, a waterproof substance known as plastic and tarred paper.

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  • Murphy v. Grey

    23 Mass. L. Rptr. 256 · Massachusetts Superior Court · Sep 7, 2007

    See, e.g., Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Co. v. Wilbur, 431 Mass. 429, 433 (2000); Brown v. Little, Brown & Co., 269 Mass. 102, 114 (1929). Cf. First Nat'l Bank v. … Co. v.

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  • American Surety Co. of New York v. 14 Canal Street, Inc.

    276 Mass. 119 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 23, 1931

    Brown v. Winnisimmet Co. 11 Allen, 326 , 334. Lyndeborough Glass Co. v. Massachusetts Glass Co. 111 Mass. 315, 317 . Davis v. Old Colony Railroad, 131 Mass. 258, 271-272 . Gloucester Water Supply Co. v. … Hollywood v. First Parish in Brockton, 192 Mass. 269, 277 . Edwards v. International Pavement Co. 227 Mass. 206 . Commercial Casualty Ins. Co. v. Daniel Russell Boiler Works, Inc. 258 Mass. 453, 455 .

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  • Tibbitts v. Wisniewski

    27 Mass. App. Ct. 729 · Massachusetts Appeals Court · Aug 18, 1989

    See Ackermann v. United States, 340 U.S. 193, 202 (1950); Artco, Inc. v. DiFruscia, 5 Mass. App. Ct. at 517 ; Bowers v. Board of Appeals of Marshfield, 16 Mass. App. Ct. 29, 33 (1983). … Universal Film Exchanges, Inc. v. Lust, 479 F.2d 573, 576-577 (4th Cir. 1973). Brown v. E.W. Bliss Co., 72 F.R.D. 198, 199-201 (D. Md. 1976).

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  • Commonwealth v. Marler

    11 Mass. App. Ct. 1014 · Massachusetts Appeals Court · Apr 27, 1981

    Ct. 748, 750-751, 751-752 (1980); Commonwealth v. Brown, 10 Mass. App. Ct. 935, 936 (1980). 2. … reputation at the time he first touched Brown.

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  • Lamb v. Durant

    12 Mass. 53 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 15, 1815

    Croix on the 21st of February, eighteen days after the transfer made * by Robert Lamb, having on board Maynard, being part- [*59] owner and general partner with the other part-owner, and also consignee of the vessel; he with … Brown, Sales, 4,7 - 9, 11 -24, 28. — Baker vs Lloyd, Bul. N. P. 258.

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  • Opinion of the Justices to the Senate

    332 Mass. 769 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 13, 1955

    In Cumberland Coal Co. v. Board of Revision of Tax Assessments, 284 U. … Louis Railway v. Browning, 310 U. S. 362 ; Charleston Federal Savings & Loan Association v. Alderson, 324 U. S. 182 , 190-191; Hillsborough v. Cromwell, 326 U. S. 620, 623 ; Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Glander, 337 U.

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  • MacNutt v. Police Commissioner

    30 Mass. App. Ct. 632 · Massachusetts Appeals Court · Jun 5, 1991

    Commonwealth v. Slocum, 230 Mass. 180, 192 (1918). Town Taxi Inc. v. Police Commr. of Boston, 377 Mass. 576, 586 (1979). … National Shawmut Bank v. Morey, 320 Mass. 492, 497 (1946). Brown v. Neelon, 335 Mass. 357, 361 (1957). Moreover, “a nonjurisdictional issue not presented at the trial level need not be considered on appeal.”

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  • John W. Baldwin, Jr., Robert N. Baldwin, James R. Baldwin, and John E. Baldwin v. Thomas P. Connor, Jr., Maria H. Connor, John J. Connor, II, Nicholas Kourtis, Polyvinyl Films, Inc., and Indusol, Inc.

    Massachusetts Superior Court · Apr 10, 2024

    Deerskin Trading Post, Inc. v. Spencer Press, Inc., 398 Mass. 118, 123 (1986), quoting Commonwealth v. Brown, 391 Mass. 157 , 160 -10- (1984). … See Board of Reg. in Med. v.

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  • San Francisco Real Estate Investors v. Real Estate Investment Trust of America

    3 Mass. Supp. 814 · Massachusetts District Court · Nov 10, 1982

    Brown, 112 F. 652 (3 Cir., 1910). … Corp. v. United Tel. Co. of Fla., 60 F.R.D., 177, 185 (M.D. Fla., 1973).

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  • Caron v. Silvia

    32 Mass. App. Ct. 271 · Massachusetts Appeals Court · Mar 23, 1992

    Board of Educ., 391 U.S. 563, 568 (1968), and was affirmed in Connick v. Myers, 461 U.S. at 154 , in 1983. Contrast Duarte v. … Board of Educ., 391 U.S. 563, 568 (1968); and whether the employee's speech was a substantial factor motivating the defendants to effectuate her discharge, Mount Healthy City Sch. Dist. Bd. of Educ. v.

    Cited 14 timesPublished

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