Jones v. Town of Wayland

How courts have described this case

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

• applying “collateral source rule” to employment discrimination context because “if there is to be a ‘windfall,’ such benefit should accrue to the injured party rather than to the wrongdoer”
• “The theory of law on which by assent a case is tried cannot be disregarded when the case comes before an appellate court for review of the acts of the trial judge”
• “indeed, where subsidiary findings are reported by the Master, both the trial judge and the Appellate Court are obligated to draw their own inferences from these findings”
• payments to a police officer under G. L. c. 41, § 11 IF, payable “at the same times and in the same manner as . . . the regular compensation of such police officer” are incidents of his employment
• both §§ 85G and 111F, findings by master
• “The term ‘compensation’ encompasses both salary and wages”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).