Lennox & Briggs Co. v. First National Bank

These three actions of tort for conspiracy to destroy the plaintiff's business and for wrongful appropria*140tian of the plaintiff’s moneys on deposit were tried together on the merits before a judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, who found for the defendants. Thereafter the plaintiff moved for a new trial in each case on the ground that before the filing of his findings the trial judge had given information to counsel for certain defendants that he had arrived at a decision in favor of the defendants; and that counsel for the plaintiff first learned of this three days later…