Legal Opinion
Corbett v. Craven
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 15, 1907PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
In the decision of this case, reported in 193 Mass. 30, it was held that, upon the conceded facts, the plaintiff’s cause of action was barred by an adjudication in a suit in equity brought by the plaintiff’s predecessor in title. In a second trial the plaintiff sought to avoid the effect of this adjudication by evidence that the plaintiff in the suit in equity, and he himself, who acquired his title soon after the suit was brought, were ignorant and mistaken as to material facts involved-in the case as it was stated in the pleadings and determined by the final decree. This was an attempt to…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Foye v. PatchMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1882
- Page v. HigginsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
- Corbett v. CravenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1906
- Trustees of Amherst College v. AllenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
- Mason v. MasonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
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3Cited by17 opinions
- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Dan A. Ditmore, M.D., and Sea Island, P.C., Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Dan A. Ditmore, M.D.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1984
- Jones v. JonesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- Willett v. WebsterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1958
- Berman v. SandlerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Comstock v. LivingstonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912
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