Legal Opinion
Spooner v. General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corp.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 17, 1979PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
This action in tort arose out of a May 28, 1974, collision between the plaintiff’s motorcycle and a motor vehicle owned by Howard Judkins and operated by Albert Jerrold. At the trial in the District Court of Hampshire, the individual defendant Judkins impleaded his insurance company, General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Corporation, Limited (General), and the plaintiff there*378after asserted his claim directly against the insurer pursuant to Dist./Mun. Cts. R. Civ. P. 14 (a) (1975). General, having received no notice of the accident until June 3, 1975, twelve months and five days after the…
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- Soule v. Massachusetts Electric Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1979
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