Legal Opinion
Merrimack Valley National Bank v. Baird
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 8, 1977PublishedCited by 112 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
This is a consolidated appeal involving four contract actions which were tried together. A judge of a District Court found for the defendants, and the plaintiff appealed to the Appellate Division of the District Courts, Northern District, which dismissed its report. Thereafter the plaintiff appealed to this court. We conclude that there was error and that the order dismissing the report must be reversed.
The evidence showed that the defendants signed 2 and delivered to the Merrimack Valley National Bank (bank) a standard form guaranty contract on which one guarantor-signer had written, “For…
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- Wright v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1967
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