Lawrence Trust Co. v. Sun-American Publishing Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on September 27, 1922, against Sun-American Pubhshing Company, John P. S. Mahoney, its president, and James J. Wrinn, its manager, seeking to enjoin the defendants Mahoney and Wrinn and their several and respective servants, agents, employees and attorneys “ from further conspiring or combining together,” or with the defendant, the Sun-American Pubhshing Company, to cause or instigate the publication by it or by any other pubhshing…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on September 27, 1922, against Sun-American Pubhshing Company, John P. S. Mahoney, its president, and James J. Wrinn, its manager, seeking to enjoin the defendants Mahoney and Wrinn and their several and respective servants, agents, employees and attorneys “ from further conspiring or combining together,” or with the defendant, the Sun-American Pubhshing Company, to cause or instigate the publication by it or by any other pubhshing agency, of any editorial statements, or representations calculated or intended unjustifiably or unwarrantably to…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
It was said in Boston Diatite Co. v. Florence Manuf. Co. 114 Mass. 69, 70, “ The jurisdiction of a Court of Chancery does not extend to cases of libel or slander, or of false representations as to the character or quality of the plaintiff’s property, or as to his title thereto, which involve no breach of trust or of contract.” And this general rule has been followed in Whitehead v. Kitson, 119 Mass. 484, Raymond v. Russell, 143 Mass. 295, Covell v. Chadwick, 153 Mass. 263, 267, Finnish Temperance Society Sovittaja v. Raivaaja Publishing Co. 219 Mass. 28. But the bill in the present case…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Walker v. CroninMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
- Boston Diatite Co. v. Florence Manufacturing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
- Finnish Temperance Society Sovittaja v. Finnish Socialistic Publishing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1921
- May v. WoodMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1898
- Perry v. PyeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
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- Farquhar v. New England Trust Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1927
- Krebiozen Research Foundation v. Beacon Press, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1956
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