Legal Opinion
Whaler Motor Inn, Inc. v. Parsons
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 31, 1977PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKaplan, J.
We granted further appellate review of decisions of the Appeals Court, reached by a five to one vote of the Justices of that court, reversing decrees of a judge of the Superior Court, which pose questions as to the duties of “promoters” and, in case of a breach of duty, as to the measure of damages to be cast. Relegating the procedural history of these cases and certain matters of detail to footnotes, 3 we block out the facts as they emerge from the subsidiary findings of the master 4 who tried the cases on reference from the Superior Court.
In late 1965, the defendant Nathaniel Lipton, an…
2Cases cited31 opinions
- Bigelow v. Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. BigelowMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- McCandless v. FurlaudSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
- Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. LewisohnSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Peters v. WallachMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Partnership Equities, Inc. v. MartenMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1982
- Access Cardiosystems, Inc. v. Fincke (In Re Acces Cardiosystems, Inc.)United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Massachusetts · 2006
- Tracy v. CurtisMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1980
- Whaler Motor Inn, Inc. v. FreedmanMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1980
- Tiernan v. TiernanMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1980
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