David Dayton v. Peck, Stow and Wilcox Co. (Pexto)

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• stating that the proponent of successor liability has the burden of proof regarding facts bringing defendants within one of the exceptions to successor non- liability
• agreeing that “ ‘continuity of shareholders’ is a ‘key factor.’ ”
• no basis for applying any other rule than traditional one in Massachusetts absent sign from legislature or state courts
• we must apply law of forum as we infer it presently to be, not as it might come to be

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).