Legal Opinion
Kaplan v. Suher
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 4, 1926PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRtjgg, C.J.
This is an action of contract on a sealed instrument. A verdict was directed in favor of the defendant. Therefore the case must be considered on that aspect of the evidence most favorable to the plaintiff. If the case had been submitted to the jury, they might have believed only the evidence helpful to the plaintiff and disregarded all adverse testimony by which the plaintiff was not bound as matter of law.
Acting on that principle of law, the jury might have found these facts from the testimony and inferences fairly deducible therefrom. The plaintiff was a stepbrother of a testatrix, under…
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- Boynton v. HubbardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1810
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- Graham v. MiddlebyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
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