Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 6/28/1951
Garfield v. Garfield
Citations
- 99 N.E.2d 645
- 327 Mass. 529
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- plaintiffs barred by laches from asserting claim twenty-seven years after accrual where delay was “inordinate” and “clearly prejudicial to the defendants”
- plaintiffs’ delay of twenty-seven years and defendants’ reliance upon the status quo including expenditures; laches barred the claim
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Judges: Qua, Lummus, Roman, Spalding, Counihan
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