Legal Opinion
Flood v. Southland Corp.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided August 5, 1993PublishedCited by 86 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
The plaintiff sustained serious injuries one night in August, 1979, when the defendant John Darcy stabbed him outside a Wakefield 7-Eleven store operated by the corporate defendant (Southland). Because of several prejudicial rulings of the trial judge, the Appeals Court vacated the judgment that the plaintiff had obtained against Southland and Darcy and remanded the case for a new trial on liability only. Flood v. Southland Corp., 33 Mass. App. Ct. 287, 302-303 (1992).
We allowed the plaintiff’s application for further appellate review. We did so principally to consider the Appeals Court’s…
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