Legal Opinion
Liberace v. Conway
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided July 9, 1991No. 89-P-1109PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Kass. J.
Having suffered dismissal of her tort action in Federal court, the plaintiff Natalie Rose Liberace filed a new action based on the same facts in Superior Court. 2 By the time she did so, the period of limitations established by G. L. c. 260, § 2A, had expired. Nevertheless, Liberace claims a right to maintain her action under G. L. c. 260, § 32. That statute, as amended by St. 1973, c. 1114, § 340, provides that, if an action fails “for any matter of form,” the plaintiff “may commence a new action for the same cause within one year after the . . . determination of the original…
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