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· 7/7/1964

Oberlander's Case

Citations

  • 200 N.E.2d 268
  • 348 Mass. 1
  • 1964 Mass. LEXIS 665

How courts have described this case

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

  • an opinion which rests on no more than possibilities is not entitled to probative value
  • expert opinion as to causal relationship, “although clothed in the garb of probability, [was in reality] no more than [a] possibility]”
  • not addressing whether an intervening cause could have disrupted showing of simple causation; distinguishing updated language of § 26A in comparison to that in effect during Tetrault’s Case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Wilkins, Spalding, Whittemore, Cutter, Reardon

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