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· 4/13/1971

Coyne Industrial Laundry of Schenectady, Inc. v. Gould

Citations

  • 268 N.E.2d 848
  • 359 Mass. 269
  • 1971 Mass. LEXIS 814

How courts have described this case

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

  • “[I]f the defendant saw the decree as ambiguous ... he could have sought clarification from the court before he engaged in the questionable conduct”
  • violation of a decree prohibiting the defendant from soliciting a laundry business in “Massachusetts, Rhode Island and several Connecticut counties”
  • dispute over meaning of terms in restraining order insufficient to render order ambiguous
  • defendant properly held in contempt where restraining order term not ambiguous but \if the defendant saw the decree as ambiguous . . . he could have sought clarification from the court before he engaged in the questionable conduct\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Spalding, Cutter, Spiegel, Reardon, Quirico

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