Legal Opinion

McAndrew v. Quirk

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided November 6, 1952PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtRonan, J.

The plaintiff brought this bill in equity against her brother and a cemetery corporation to determine her right to have her deceased husband buried in a lot which her father acquired in 1890, and to compel her brother to deliver to the cemetery corporation the deed of the lot, which he refuses to surrender, in order that the body of the deceased may be interred in the lot. The corporation filed no answer and took no active part in the controversy. The individual defendant appealed from a final decree granting the plaintiff the relief which she sought.

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2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Charles I. Hosmer, Inc. v. CommonwealthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
  2. Sohier v. Trinity ChurchMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
  3. Birnbaum v. PamoukisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938
  4. Commissioner of Corporations & Taxation v. ClubMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1945
  5. Walsh v. Atlantic Research Associates, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1947

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Vincent v. Nicholas E. Tsiknas Co. Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1958
  2. LaCava v. LucanderMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2003
  3. Johnson v. McMahonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1962
  4. Messina v. LaRosaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1958
  5. Sanford v. VinalMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1990

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