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· 7/16/1987

Minnis v. Peebles

Citations

  • 510 N.E.2d 289
  • 24 Mass. App. Ct. 467

How courts have described this case

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

  • declining to dismiss action involving motor vehicle accident in Bermuda where only two witnesses were amenable to process there and five witnesses were not amenable to process in either forum
  • although court reversed forum non conveniens dismissal, basis of decision was that defendant had not made a sufficient showing, not that she was a resident
  • “we do not factor into the balance the possibility that the plaintiffs’ claims may have less monetary value in [the foreign jurisdiction]”
  • defendant submitted chapter of encyclopedia discussing Bermuda’s law of negligence

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Judges: Kaplan, Perretta, Warner

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