DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT COMPANY v. P. J. RITTER COMPANY

No. 7348.

419 F.2d 147 (1969)

DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT COMPANY, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. P. J. RITTER COMPANY, Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff, Appellant, v. SILVER CREEK PRESERVING CORP., et al., Third-Party Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

Decided December 30, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond J. Kenney, Jr., Boston, Mass., with whom Clement McCarthy, Charles P. Reidy, III, Boston, Mass., and Bernard T. Loughran, Belmont, Mass., were on brief, for appellant.

Paul V. Power, Boston, Mass., for Silver Creek Preserving Corp., appellee.

Charles A. Goglia, Jr., Boston, Mass., with whom Henry P. Monaghan and Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for Albert W. Sisk & Son, Inc., appellee.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


ALDRICH, Chief Judge.

Although another matter was sought to be argued, we will decide only one question in this case; whether the Massachusetts long arm statute, Mass. G.L. c. 223A § 1 et seq., enacted in 1968, is to be applied retrospectively. The conduct upon which jurisdiction is sought to be based, and even the institution of suit, occurred before the effective date of the statute. The complaint against the third...

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