Newton v. Moffie

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• holding that a private transaction between individual members of the same partnership is not actionable where the transaction affects only the partners themselves and does not affect, either directly or indirectly, the interests of the public, other businessmen, or competitors
• c. 93A “was intended to apply only to dealings between legally separate ‘persons’ engaged in arm’s length transactions”
• G. L. c. 93A intended to apply only to dealings between legally separate “persons” engaged in arm’s-length transactions
• G. L. c. 93A, § 11, intended to apply only to dealings between legally separate “persons” engaged in arm’s-length transactions, not to dealings between members of single legal entity
• c. 93A inapplicable to claims between individual members of same partnership which arise from partnership business
• c. 93A is inapplicable to claims between individual members of same partnership that arise from partnership business

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).