Legal Opinion
Plymouth & Brockton Street Railway Co. v. Leyland
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 23, 1996PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFried, J.
As the most recent in a protracted series of mo*527tians and pleas for special relief in this case, Plymouth and Brockton Street Railway Company (P&B), the appellant in this aspect of the proceedings, invokes G. L. c. 211, § 3 (1994 ed.), and seeks relief in the nature of a writ of prohibition to preclude the Superior Court from exercising jurisdiction over the appellee, Arline C. Leyland’s claim against it on the underlying cause of action. A single justice of this court denied such relief and P&B now appeals to the full court. As we conclude that the single justice’s judgment constituted…
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