Legal Opinion
Quinn v. Walsh
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided July 14, 2000No. 98-P-1019PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDuffly, J.
Does a complaint alleging that a defendant engaged in an extramarital affair in order to injure a plaintiff spouse *697survive the statutory abolition2 of the common-law torts of alienation of affection and criminal conversation? Concluding that such a complaint stated no case, a judge of the Superior Court dismissed it. The spouse, Gilbert C. Quinn (Quinn), and son (Michael) appeal the dismissal.
These are the allegations in the complaint. Quinn and Susan Bloomstein were married on July 17, 1977. Their only child, Michael, was bom on March 30, 1982. In January, 1994, and continuing thereafter for…
2Cases cited69 opinions
- Nader v. CitronMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- Twyman v. TwymanTexas Supreme Court · 1993
- Agis v. Howard Johnson Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- Riley v. PresnellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1991
- Hendrickson v. SearsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1974
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3Cited by38 opinions
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- Limone v. United StatesDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2007
- Conley v. RomeriMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2004
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