Legal Opinion
Wax v. McGrath
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 30, 1926PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The jury could find on the evidence that the defendant, a police officer of the town of Brookline, in the afternoon or early in the evening of June 12, 1924, without having any warrant took the plaintiff, an insurance agent, into custody, and that in the plaintiff’s car which he was operating they drove to the police station. The defendant at the time of the plaintiff’s detention interrogated him as to his name, residence, the name of the insurance company by which he said he was employed, as well as where he was and what he was doing “last night about this time.” At the police station in…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Morse v. WoodworthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1892
- Commonwealth v. PhelpsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1911
- Wood v. GravesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
- Keefe v. HartMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
- Jackson v. KnowltonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Foley v. Polaroid Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1987
- Hector Santiago v. Paul J. Fenton, Etc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1989
- Bancroft Dudley Hall v. Frederick J. Ochs, Frederick J. Ochs, S. Leo Judge, James P. Rogers, Thomas F. Murphy and Town of MiltonCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1987
- Commonwealth v. RonchettiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1955
- Sietins v. JosephDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2003
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