Legal Opinion
Mullen v. Connolly
Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division
Decided July 28, 1989PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBlack, P.J.
This case comes before the court upon a petition to establish a report. The issue which the petitioner seeks to have reviewed involves the authority of a District Court judge to impose counsel fees and costs under G. L. c. 231, § 6F.
The appellate record discloses that the plaintiff, Paul F. Mullen, commenced a civil action in the Newton Division of the District Court Department, against the defendant, Joseph C. Connolly, to recover on two four thousand dollar ($4,000.00) checks which the plaintiff alleged that the defendant did not honor. The Newton case (No. 56400) was later transferred to…
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