Legal Opinion
Garfield v. Garfield
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 28, 1951PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpalding, J.
By this bill brought in 1947 the plaintiffs seek to establish a trust in and to compel a conveyance to themselves of an undivided one-quarter interest in certain land in West Dennis of which they claim to have been* deprived due to the alleged fraud in 1903 of Lyman F. Garfield, deceased father of the defendant Helen P. Buckley and husband of the defendant Ethel L. Garfield. The defendants severally filed answers pleading loches but not the statute of limitations. The case was referred to a master under the usual rule. Rule 86 of the Superior Court (1932). The plaintiffs have appealed from…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Minot v. MinotMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1946
- MacLeod v. DavisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1935
- Buckley v. JohnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
- Holmes v. JohnsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
- Moseley v. Briggs Realty Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1946
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Hanrihan v. HanrihanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1961
- Shaw v. United Cape Cod Cranberry Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1955
- Feeney v. FeeneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1957
- General Electric Company, Lighting Business Group v. Halmar Distributors, Inc. (In Re Halmar Distributors, Inc.)United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Massachusetts · 1990
- Wadsworth's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2012
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