Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Gale
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 29, 1944PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
The defendant was found guilty by a jury upon five counts of an indictment for perjury as a witness at a hearing before a master in two suits in equity in which *275he was a defendant. The suits in equity came to this court, and are reported under the names of Geffen v. Paletz and others and Brock v. Gale and others, 312 Mass. 48. The nature of the controversy appears from the report of those cases.
From that report it appears that one Paletz held title to real estate on Pearl Street in Cambridge, as a “straw” for Ida F. Gale, the wife of the defendant. In order to make it appear that the property…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Commonwealth v. DyerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
- Commonwealth v. PolianMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
- Commonwealth v. DiStasioMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- City of Boston v. DolanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- Commonwealth v. GiacomazzaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1942
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3Cited by32 opinions
- Commonwealth v. DomanskiMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1954
- Commonwealth v. McLaughlinMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1973
- Commonwealth v. BellinoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1947
- Commonwealth v. ConroyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1956
- Commonwealth v. HawleyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
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