Legal Opinion
Clapp v. Haynes
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided December 26, 1980PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
These cross appeals arise out of two actions for conversion (consolidated for trial and appeal) brought by the plaintiffs, Lewis C. Clapp (Clapp) and American Teaching Toys, Inc. (ATT), against the defendants, G. Arnold Haynes (Haynes) and Thomas D. Godino (Godino). The first trial of these actions in the Superior Court resulted in verdicts and judgments for the defendants which were subsequently set aside by the judge’s allowance of the plaintiffs’ motions for new trials. Mass.R.Civ.P. 59[a], 365 Mass. 827 (1974). The defendants have appealed from the denial of their motions for directed…
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