Legal Opinion
Hacker v. Beck
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 3, 1950PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRonan, J.
These are three separate actions of tort for deceit to recover damages from each of the defendants. The defendants by a plea, demurrer and answer set up that the final decree dismissing the bill entered in a previous suit against a corporation and all of these defendants and the judgments entered in their favor in the three earlier actions at law which were brought respectively against each of these defendants constitute a bar to the maintenance of the instant actions. The present actions were heard in the Superior Court by order of the judge on the single issue of res judicata. Certified…
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