Compass Securities Corp. v. Kaplan

This is an appeal of the involuntary dismissal, upon payment of sub*195stantial costs, of a spin-off of a larger case still pending in the Superior Court Department As the Superior Court issued a G.L.c. 223, §2B order for the consolidation and transfer of this District Court action, the District Court’s rulings made subsequent to that order must be vacated, and the case must be returned to the District Court with instructions to transfer the case immediately to the Superior Court.

The procedural background of this appeal is a bit complex. In 2008, Harley Kaplan (“Kaplan”) and others sued Compass…