FALL RIVER SAVINGS BANK v. CALLAHAN


18 Mass. App. Ct. 76 (1984)

463 N.E.2d 555

FALL RIVER SAVINGS BANK; BEN LEE HARRISON & another, interveners, vs. JOSEPH S. CALLAHAN (and seven companion cases).

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

May 1, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John P. Ryan for the defendant.

Mary Alice S. McLaughlin for the plaintiff.

Present: KASS, HALE, & DREBEN, JJ.


KASS, J.

All eight cases, here consolidated for appeal, resulted in findings that the defendant, Joseph S. Callahan, a lawyer, had been negligent in certifying titles as good and marketable without calling to attention that the potential for Federal estate tax liens and State inheritance tax liens had not been eradicated from the record.

We summarize the facts, which we drew from detailed and helpful findings by the trial judge, with some slight supplement...

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