Legal Opinion
Coggins v. New England Patriots Football Club, Inc.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 14, 1986PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLiacos, J.
On November 18, 1959, William H. Sullivan, Jr. (Sullivan), purchased an American Football League (AFL) franchise for a professional football team. The team was to be the last of the eight original teams set up to form the AFL (now the American Football Conference of the National Football League). For the franchise, Sullivan paid $25,000. Four months later, Sullivan organized a corporation, the American League Professional Football Team of Boston, Inc. Sullivan contributed his AFL franchise; nine other persons each contributed $25,000. In return, each of the ten investors received 10.000…
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