Legal Opinion
Monahan v. Washburn
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 28, 1987Published
1Opinion of the Court
400 Mass. 126 (1987)
507 N.E.2d 1045
NOEL B. MONAHAN & another[1]
vs.
TIMOTHY F. WASHBURN, executor, & others.[2]
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.
March 3, 1987.
May 28, 1987.
Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., LIACOS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.
Carroll Ayers for the plaintiffs.
George W. Marion for Cooley Dickinson Hospital.
NOLAN, J.
The sole issue on this appeal is whether the dismissal of plaintiffs' complaint for want of prosecution was an appropriate sanction where the principal plaintiff (Monahan), for medical reasons, was unable to be present in the courtroom on the scheduled date…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Bucchiere v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1986
- Monahan v. WashburnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
- Pollard v. WalshSupreme Court of Colorado · 1978
- Miqueas Ten v. Svenska Orient Linen, and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellee-Appellant v. Nacirema Operating Co., Inc., Third-PartyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978