Attorney General v. Onset Bay Grove Ass'n
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Information in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on July 5,1899, by the Attorney General at the relation of the people of the village of Onset, alleging that the defendant, a corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth, in 1877 bought a large tract of land in the town of Wareham known as Oak Grove Bluff and containing about one hundred and fifty acres; that the business of the defendant and the purpose for which it was organized was the holding of…
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Information in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on July 5,1899, by the Attorney General at the relation of the people of the village of Onset, alleging that the defendant, a corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth, in 1877 bought a large tract of land in the town of Wareham known as Oak Grove Bluff and containing about one hundred and fifty acres; that the business of the defendant and the purpose for which it was organized was the holding of personal property and real estate where a wharf, hotel and other public buildings might be erected, and building lots sold…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The reference to the master having operated as a waiver of the demurrer, the questions for decision are whether any of the defendant’s exceptions to the report are well taken and whether, upon the facts reported, the information can be maintained. Driscoll v. Smith, 184 Mass. 221.
The master was appointed to find the facts, and as the counsel for the defendant has argued only the exceptions relating to the admission of evidence, the remaining exceptions to alleged erroneous rulings of law are to be treated as waived. But, as the admissibility of the evidence is so interwoven with the principal…
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- Bacon v. Onset Bay Grove Ass'nMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
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