Legal Opinion
William DEGNAN, Jr., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. PUBLICKER INDUSTRIES, INC., Et Al., Defendants, Appellees
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 1, 1996No. 95-2244PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
William Degnan, Jr., the former president of Fenwal Electronics, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Publieker Industries, Inc., initiated this misrepresentation action in a Massachusetts state court against Fenwal and Publieker on November 14,1994. He framed his complaint exclusively in terms of state law, alleging in substance that the defendants induced him to take early retirement at age fifty-five by promising to revise a corporate retirement plan so as to make him eligible for full retirement benefits at that age; and that, after he retired (giving up lucrative…
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