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· 1/27/1984

Allen v. Batchelder

Citations

  • 459 N.E.2d 129
  • 17 Mass. App. Ct. 453
  • 1984 Mass. App. LEXIS 1366

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • describing another such individual as a “bounty hunter in troubled titles”
  • award of $5,000 in damages for appellee’s legal fees for the appeal, as well as double costs
  • jury may infer ouster from long, exclusive and uninterrupted possession by one co-tenant
  • jury may infer ouster from long, exclusive and uninterrupted possession by one co-tenant
  • court will not deem an appeal to be “frivolous because it presents an argument that is novel, unusual or ingenious, or urges adoption of a new principle of law or revision of an old one”
  • appeal that \cover[ed] no ground not gone over by [previous] cases\ was frivolous

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Judges: Perretta, Kass, Warner

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