Isenbeck v. Burroughs
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, by a dealer in real estate against the members of a firm of real estate brokers, for alleged false and fraudulent representations by which the plaintiff was induced to pay $35,000 for the equity of redemption in certain real estate numbered 251 and 259 on Atlantic Avenue in Boston, which was held by the trustees of an unincorporated association called the Atlantic Real Estate Trust, when the property thus purchased by the plaintiff could have been bought for $25,000,…
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Tort, by a dealer in real estate against the members of a firm of real estate brokers, for alleged false and fraudulent representations by which the plaintiff was induced to pay $35,000 for the equity of redemption in certain real estate numbered 251 and 259 on Atlantic Avenue in Boston, which was held by the trustees of an unincorporated association called the Atlantic Real Estate Trust, when the property thus purchased by the plaintiff could have been bought for $25,000, which was all that the trustees in fact received for it, the defendants being alleged to have retained the balance for…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
This bill of exceptions is unnecessarily and unreasonably long. It is open to all the animadversions which were made in Cornell-Andrews Smelting Co. v. Boston & Providence Railroad, 215 Mass. 381, 387. The real questions raised at the argument are so covered up by a mass of irrelevant matter as to involve a serious danger that something material may be overlooked. Such a bill ought not to have been brought before the court. It may become a question, if this practice shall be persisted in and the objection shall be taken seasonably, whether such a bill ought not to be dismissed without…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Cornell-Andrews Smelting Co. v. Boston & Providence RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
- Kilgore v. BruceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
- Haskell v. StarbirdMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1890
- Thompson v. BarryMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
- Jewett v. CarterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1882
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- Commonwealth v. McGrathMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1972
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