Shea v. Bay State Gas Co.

Decided March 30, 1981. Ruth Abrams wrote the opinion for the court.

383 Mass. 218 · Cited 159 times

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• Massachusetts Turnpike Authority v. Perini Corp. · 208 N.E.2d 807
• New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad v. Walworth Co. · 162 N.E.2d 789
• Shea v. Bay State Gas Co. · 9 Mass. App. Ct. 744
• Community National Bank v. Dawes · 340 N.E.2d 877
• Consolidated Cigar Corp. v. Department of Public Health · 364 N.E.2d 1202
• Stewart v. Roy Bros. Inc. · 265 N.E.2d 357
• McMahon v. Monarch Life Insurance · 186 N.E.2d 827
• Clarke v. Ames · 267 Mass. 44
• Barrons v. J. H. Findorff & Sons, Inc. · 278 N.W.2d 827
• Laskowski v. Manning · 91 N.E.2d 231
• Afienko v. Harvard Club of Boston · 312 N.E.2d 196
• Weston Funding Corp. v. Lafayette Towers, Inc. · 410 F. Supp. 980
• Bryne v. City of Gloucester · 297 Mass. 156
• Day v. Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company · 353 F. Supp. 1350
• New Bedford Gas & Edison Light Co. v. Maritime Terminal, Inc. · 405 N.E.2d 653
• Century Indemnity Co. v. Bloom · 325 Mass. 52
• Teeples v. Tolson · 207 F. Supp. 212
• Berger v. Siegel · 106 N.E.2d 429
• Brown v. Wong Gow Sue · 241 N.E.2d 919

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