Sullivan v. First Massachusetts Financial Corp.

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• holding price must be fair and reasonable
• in certain complex cases, expert testimony may be admissible to establish the law of another jurisdiction
• expert testimony on qualification for Subchapter S status properly admitted to inform the jury, but the judge himself could have properly instructed the jury on this complicated issue.
• Not an abuse of discretion for judge to permit accountant to testify that a bank could not have qualified for Subchapter 8 status under Internal Revenue Statute & Regulations
• “The judge did not abuse her discretion in deciding to submit the breach of [fiduciary] duty claims to the jury, even though, standing alone, those claims were not ones as to which a jury trial was required.”

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