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  • Keene Lumber Co. v. Leventhal

    71 F. Supp. 598 · District Court, D. Massachusetts · May 2, 1947

    Although the representation covers both Koritz’s dealings and the dealings of another person, to wit, Davenport-Brown, Inc., the plaintiff says that the reference to the other person, Davenport-Brown, Inc., is merely incidental … Walker v. Russell, supra, 186 Mass, at page 71, 71 N.E. at page 87.

    Reversed on other grounds by Keene Lumber Co. v. Leventhal, 165 F.2d 815 (1948)Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Lombardo

    271 Mass. 41 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 24, 1930

    Commonwealth v. Wakelin, 230 Mass. 567 . Commonwealth v. Walsh, 255 Mass. 317, 319 . Cooper v. State, 64 Md. 40 . State v. Drury, 13 R. I. 540. G. … In Commonwealth v. Brown, 14 Gray, 419 , 420, 421, the defendant was found guilty under an indictment charging that he used an instrument with intent to cause Susan A.

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Giuggio v. Paoli

    244 Mass. 279 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 2, 1923

    Badger v. Holmes, 6 Gray, 118 . Peck v. Carpenter, 7 Gray, 283 . Brown v. Wellington, 106 Mass. 318 . Kirchgassner v. Rodick, 170 Mass. 543 . Carroll v. Carroll, 188 Mass. 558 . Brown v. Brown, 209 Mass. 388, 395 .

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Jansson v. Swedish American Line

    89 F. Supp. 557 · District Court, D. Massachusetts · Mar 31, 1950

    Gerli & Co., Inc., v. Cunard S. S. Co. Ltd., 2 Cir., 48 F.2d 115 ; Compagnie Generale Transatlantique v. Rivers, 2 Cir., 211 F. 294 ; Parrot v. … Smith v. Brown, 302 Mass. 432 , 19 N.E.2d 732 ; Eastern Offices, Inc., v. P. F. O’Keefe Advertising Agency, Inc., 289 Mass. 23 , 193 N.E. 837 . It is not necessary that the foreign law should be pleaded. Richards v.

    Reversed on other grounds by Jansson v. Swedish American Line, 185 F.2d 212 (1950)Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Berman v. Cosmos

    18 Mass. L. Rptr. 483 · Massachusetts Superior Court · Nov 18, 2004

    Cosmos (“Cosmos”) and Brown, Rudnick, Freed & Gesmer, P.C. (“Brown Rudnick”) executed a Promissory Note (the “Note”) which was subsequently assigned to Berman. … Pederson v. Time, Inc., 404 Mass. 14, 17 (1989).

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Aldeman v. City of Cambridge

    8 Mass. App. Div. 257 · Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · Sep 24, 1943

    Wheelwright v. Tax Commissioner, 235 Mass. 584, at 586 . Brown v. Robinson, 275 Mass. 55, at 57 . Commonwealth v. Flynn, 285 Mass. 136, at 139 . Leone v. Falco, 292 Mass. 299, at 302, 303 . Geen v. … C. 71, section 43, to the board of finance so concerned Fall River, or to require its joint exercise by both boards.” In deciding that St. 1931, C. 44 was constitutional, the Court said in Broadhurst v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Leland v. Medora

    15 F. Cas. 298 · U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · Oct 15, 1846

    Raym. 805; 2 Browne, Civ. & Adm. Law, 35. And so here. North v. The Eagle [Case No. 10,309]; Woodruff v. The Levi Dearborne [Id. 17,988]. … Briggs v. French [Case No. 1,870]; [Massie v. Watts] 6 Cranch [10 U. S.] 148; [Peirsoll v. Elliott] 6 Pet. [31 U. S.] 95; 2 Brown, Parl. Cas. 39.

    Cited 3 timesPublished
  • Utah Radio Products Co. v. Boudette

    8 F. Supp. 5 · District Court, D. Massachusetts · Aug 7, 1934

    McCarty v. Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, 160 U. S. 110 , 16 S. Ct. 240 , 40 L. Ed. 358 ; Bates & Klinke, Inc., v. Peters Patent Corp. (C. C. A. 1) 73 F.(2d) 303 , decided June 14, 1934. … Hazeltine Corp. v. Atwater Kent Mfg. Co. (D. C.) 34 F.(2d) 50 .

    Cited 2 timesPublished
  • Goulis v. Judge of Third District Court

    246 Mass. 1 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 20, 1923

    There was involved in Robertson v. Baldwin, 165 U. S. 275 , the validity of a federal statute authorizing justices of the peace to arrest deserting seamen and deliver them on board their vessel. … Levin v. United States, 63 C. C. A. 476, 480 ; 128 Fed. Rep. 826. Roberts v. Brown, 43 Tex. Civ. App. 206 . Harris v. Superior Court, 51 Cal. App. 15 . So far as we are aware there are no adjudications to the contrary.

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Eyssi v. City of Lawrence

    416 Mass. 194 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Aug 26, 1993

    When Brown received the dispatch call, he was 2.3 miles from 203 Crawford Street. … Ferriter v.

    Cited 24 timesPublished
  • Opinions of the Justices to the Governor

    372 Mass. 874 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 16, 1977

    E.g., Baird v. State Bar of Arizona, 401 U.S. 1 (1971); Keyishian v. Board of Regents, 385 U.S. 589 (1967); Lamont v. Postmaster General, 381 U.S. 301 (1965); Baggett v. Bullitt, 377 U.S. 360 (1964).” … Freedom of expression, which includes the right to remain silent (Brown v.

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Directors of the Boston & Maine Railroad v. City of Woburn

    266 Mass. 358 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Feb 27, 1929

    St. 1923, c. 351, § 1, provides, so far as material to the question before us, that if a public way and a railroad cross each other, and the board of aldermen or the selectmen of the town where the crossing is situated, or … See Browne v. Turner, 174 Mass. 150, 159 . We do not think it follows, as the Commonwealth contends, that from this construction the Commonwealth can be made a party to every proceeding for alterations of a crossing.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Bartie

    23 Mass. App. Ct. 479 · Massachusetts Appeals Court · Feb 9, 1987

    The defendant’s appeal from his convictions of armed robbery is based on Commonwealth v. Brown, 395 Mass. 604 (1985). … The statute in Commonwealth v. Brown , G. L. c. 234, § 32, provides: “No irregularity in . . .

    Cited 1 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Clermy

    421 Mass. 325 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 10, 1995

    The troopers first observed the defendant sitting on the steps of a boarded-up building which had been condemned by the city of Brockton and was known to police as a “crack house.” … The trooper reached inside the defendant’s pants and retrieved a three-inch opaque brown plastic bottle for prescription medicine, covered with a white cap.

    Cited 57 timesPublished
  • Harlow v. Bd. of Assessors of Kingston

    93 Mass. App. Ct. 1106 · Massachusetts Appeals Court · Apr 11, 2018

    Monahan v. Washburn , 400 Mass. 126 , 128 (1987). … The board was not, of course, required to credit the taxpayers' naked assertion, see Kennametal, Inc. v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Contescu v. Harrop

    3 Mass. L. Rptr. 635 · Massachusetts Superior Court · Apr 19, 1995

    In November 1992, the Cambridge Rent Control Board (“CRCB”) approved plaintiffs’ evictions. Plaintiffs vacated the premises on June 30, 1993. … Tennaro v. Ryder System Inc., at 499, citing Norman v. Brown, Todd & Heybum, 693 F.Supp. 1259, 1265 (D.Mass. 1988). In Tennaro v.

    Cited 0 timesPublished
  • Navedo v. Maloney

    172 F. Supp. 2d 276 · District Court, D. Massachusetts · Sep 28, 2001

    They also argue that, in any case, under the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. … The Fourth Circuit remains divided on the issue; compare Brown v. North Carolina Div. of Motor Vehicles, 166 F.3d 698 (4th Cir.1999) (holding that regulation promulgated under A.D.A.

    Cited 12 timesPublished
  • Frisch v. Wells

    200 Mass. 429 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jan 5, 1909

    Bailey v. Hervey, 135 Mass. 172 . Brown v. Magorty, 156 Mass. 209 . White v. Solomon, 164 Mass. 516, 518 . Smith v. Aldrich, 180 Mass. 367, 369 . … Brown v. Magorty, 156 Mass. 209, 211 . Cooper v. Cooper, 147 Mass. 370, 373 .

    Cited 35 timesPublished
  • Massachusetts Agricultural College v. Marden

    156 Mass. 150 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Mar 29, 1892

    This point was involved in the decision in Liggett v. Ladd, 17 Oregon, 89, and in an opinion of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island, holding that Brown University is entitled to receive the benefit of the fund. … Cornell University v. Piske, 136 U. S. 152, 203 . People v. Davenport, 117 N. Y. 549 .

    Cited 7 timesPublished
  • Spring v. Haskell

    80 Mass. 309 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Nov 15, 1859

    Stinson v. Wyman, Daveis, 175. … Brown v. Wilkinson, 15 M. & W. 391.

    Cited 1 timesPublished

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