Legal Opinion
Carolet Corp. v. Garfield
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 17, 1959PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpalding, J.
This suit is on the equity side of the court solely because it seeks to reach and apply shares of corporate stock owned by two of the defendants. In essence, however, the suit is an action at law to recover for breach of a warranty given in connection with the sale of stock of Whitman Plastics, Inc.
A master, to whom the case was referred and whose report, as supplemented, was confirmed by an interlocutory decree, found the following facts: On January 13, 1949, the plaintiff, then known as William Whitman Company, Inc., purchased from the defendant Samuel Garfield six hundred shares of the…
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- Turner v. Central Hardware Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1945
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