Legal Opinion
Kerr v. Shurtleff
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 25, 1914PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
This is an action of tort in which the plaintiff alleges that, to induce him to become a student in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, the defendant* falsely represented to him in the summer of 1908 that the college had authority to grant the degree of Dentaria Medicina Doctor (D.M.D.) and that acting on that representation the plaintiff enrolled himself as a student, pursued a course of study for three years and passed all the examinations given him by his instructors, but failed to get the degree of D.M.D. by reason of the fact that the defendant did not have authority to grant it. The…
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3Cited by25 opinions
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