BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION v. INTERNATIONAL MARATHONS


392 Mass. 356 (1984)

467 N.E.2d 58

BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION vs. INTERNATIONAL MARATHONS, INC., & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 3, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Barshak (Jeffrey S. Stern & Tina M. Traficanti with him) for International Marathons, Inc., & others.

George C. Caner, Jr. (Thomas H. Hannigan, Jr., with him) for the plaintiff.

Catharine W. Hantzis, Assistant Attorney General (Leslie G. Espinoza, Assistant Attorney General, with her) for the Attorney General.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.


LYNCH, J.

These two appeals present the question whether the president of the Boston Athletic Association (BAA), William T. Cloney, was authorized to enter into a certain contract with the defendant International Marathons, Inc. (IMI), by its president Marshall Medoff. This contract purported to designate IMI as the exclusive promoter of the Boston Marathon (Marathon).

Two rulings are before us: an interlocutory order granting the BAA's request for a preliminary...

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