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· 2/5/1982

BBF, INC. v. Germanium Power Devices Corp.

Citations

  • 430 N.E.2d 1221
  • 13 Mass. App. Ct. 166
  • 1982 Mass. App. LEXIS 1188

How courts have described this case

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  • finding trial court was justified in concluding that third-party defendant who did not owe fiduciary duty to company could still be jointly and severally hable when non-fiduciary knowingly participated with fiduciary in appropriating corporate opportunity of company
  • plaintiff did not produce evidence of the cost of training or finding replacements for fellow employees enticed away by the defendants
  • no abuse of discretion in denial of motion to amend complaint to include prayers for relief under G.L.c. 93A
  • plaintiff must establish that \harm had a reasonably ascertainable monetary value\
  • not an abuse of discretion to require disloyal corporate officers to repay to corporation their entire salaries during period of disloyalty, where officers misused confidential corporate information to usurp a corporate opportunity
  • “It was not sufficient simply to show [plaintiffs] projection of its sales and the historic return of total sales . . . plaintiff must establish that harm ‘had a reasonably ascertained monetary value’ ”

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Judges: Cutter, Hale, Rose

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