Legal Opinion
Merchants' Insurance Co. of Providence v. Abbott
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 13, 1881PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGray, C. J.
These actions are in the nature of assumpsit for money had and received, with special counts alleging that the plaintiffs were induced to pay the money by fraud and mistake. The five cases were tried together, but are not exactly alike.
In the first action, which is brought by the Merchants’ Insurance Company of Providence, R. I., against Charles W. Abbott and the members of the firm of Denny, Rice & Company, the material facts are shown by the report of the presiding justice and the special findings of the jury to be as follows:
On March 17,1876, a woollen mill was destroyed by fire, upon the…
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