· 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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