Legal Opinion
Bolden v. O'Connor Café of Worcester, Inc.
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided September 8, 2000No. 98-P-1817PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLenk, J.
The issue before us in this case is whether the trial judge abused his discretion when he denied the nonparty insurance company’s postjudgment motion to intervene as a defendant for the purpose of pursuing an appeal of the plaintiffs’ jury verdict.
*57Briefly, a jury found the defendant, O’Connor Café of Worcester, Inc., doing business as Leitrim’s Pub (Leitrim’s), liable in this dramshop liability suit and awarded the plaintiffs Lynn and Geraldine Bolden (Boldens) over twenty million dollars in damages. Pursuant to a postjudgment settlement agreement between the parties, Leitrim’s agreed to…
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