Legal Opinion
Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Co. v. Union Street Railway Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 27, 1929PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSanderson, J.
This is an action of contract to recover a sum alleged to be the balance due the plaintiff from the defendant under a written agreement dated March 8, 1920, relating to the handling of trolley freight over the lines of both companies, and to the use of freight terminals of the defendant in New Bedford and Fall River.
The defendant’s answer as amended sets up as one defence that the agreement was to continue for five years from its date with the right of either party to terminate it by giving the other six months’ notice; that the plaintiff on June 9, 1920, notified the defendant of its…
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