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Shattuck v. Marcus

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Suffolk
Feb 25, 1903
66 N.E. 196 (Mass. 1903)

Opinion

November 11, 1902.

February 25, 1903.

Present: KNOWLTON, C.J., MORTON, LATHROP, HAMMOND, JJ.

Pleading, Declaration.

The objection that a count of a declaration embraces two causes of action must be taken by demurrer.

E.H. Savary L.E. Baldwin, for the defendants.

J.D. Thomson, for the plaintiff.


If the declarations in these cases are to be construed, as the defendants contend, as each containing only one count, which embraces two causes of action, and so are in violation of the Pub. Sts. c. 167, § 2, cl. 4, the objection should have been taken by demurrer. Clay v. Brigham, 8 Gray, 161. Downs v. Hawley, 112 Mass. 237, 241.

The exceptions are frivolous, and are overruled with double costs, and interest at twelve per cent.

So ordered.


Summaries of

Shattuck v. Marcus

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Suffolk
Feb 25, 1903
66 N.E. 196 (Mass. 1903)
Case details for

Shattuck v. Marcus

Case Details

Full title:EDWARD G. SHATTUCK vs. ALFRED A. MARCUS others. SAME vs. SAME. SAME vs…

Court:Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Suffolk

Date published: Feb 25, 1903

Citations

66 N.E. 196 (Mass. 1903)
182 Mass. 572

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