Kennedy v. Hub Manufacturing Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for an alleged abuse of civil process and malicious interference with the plaintiff’s contract of employment, when he was employed as he had been during a long period of time at making heels on shoes at the factory of J. L. Walker and Company at Lynn, by serving on the plaintiff’s employer on January 18, 1912, maliciously and with intent to injure the plaintiff a copy of an assignment of wages alleged to have been made by the plaintiff, by reason of which the plaintiff…
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Tort for an alleged abuse of civil process and malicious interference with the plaintiff’s contract of employment, when he was employed as he had been during a long period of time at making heels on shoes at the factory of J. L. Walker and Company at Lynn, by serving on the plaintiff’s employer on January 18, 1912, maliciously and with intent to injure the plaintiff a copy of an assignment of wages alleged to have been made by the plaintiff, by reason of which the plaintiff was discharged. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated March 12, 1912. On app’eal to the Superior Court…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
1. This case comes before us on exceptions by both parties. Those of the plaintiff are considered first. The verdict was in favor of the plaintiff. The defendant saved exceptions. Before the lapse of twenty days after the rendition of the verdict, the judge who presided over the jury trial, on motion by the defendant and without notice to the plaintiff, extended the time within which its exceptions might be filed, and thereafter made several further like extensions, each being granted before the expiration of the last. The verdict was returned on January 30, 1914, and the defendant’s…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Dolan v. Boott Cotton MillsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
- Lopes v. ConnollyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
- Hack v. NasonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
- Howland v. George F. Blake Manufacturing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
- Greenwood v. BradfordMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1880
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- Riley v. BrusendorffMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
- Barnard Manufacturing Co. v. Eugen C. Andres Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
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