Legal Opinion
Bresnahan v. Brighton Avenue Baptist Church
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 20, 1932PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is an action of contract to recover $5,450 which the plaintiff alleges the defendant owes him for services in procuring a sale of certain real estate, in Boston. The case was tried twice before a judge of the Superior Court with a jury, and at each trial a verdict was returned for the plaintiff. On motion of the defendant the first verdict was set aside and a second trial granted. The case is before this court solely on exceptions saved by the defendant at the second trial. “When a verdict is set aside *302as a whole on such grounds, all that occurred at the trial producing that verdict,…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Elliott v. KazajianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1926
- Whitcomb v. BaconMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1898
- Winchester v. MissinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
- Cadigan v. CrabtreeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1901
- Woods v. MatthewsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
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3Cited by9 opinions
- John T. Burns & Sons Inc. v. HandsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1933
- Bruns v. Jordan Marsh Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1940
- Turner v. MinasianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1970
- Talbot-Windsor Corp. v. William A. C. Miller, IIICourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1962
- Chisholm v. McCarthyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
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