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COGGINS v. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS FOOTBALL CLUB, INC.

397 Mass. 525 (1986)

492 N.E.2d 1112

DAVID A. COGGINS & others vs. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS FOO ALL CLUB, INC., & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 14, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward B. Hanify for New England Patriots Football Club, Inc. (with him George T. Finnegan & John D. Donovan, Jr., and, for Charles W. Sullivan & others, Richard E. Bachman).

Edward P. Leibensperger & Irving J. Helman (David R. Schmahmann with them) for the plaintiffs.

Anthony Tarricone & Nathaniel S. Weiner (Gerard J. Clark & Camille F. Sarrouf with them) for the interveners.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., LIACOS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

LIACOS, J.

On November 18, 1959, William H. Sullivan, Jr. (Sullivan), purchased an American Football League (AFL) franchise for a professional football team. The team was to be the last of the eight original teams set up to form the AFL (now the American Football Conference of the National Football League). For the franchise, Sullivan paid $25,000. Four months later, Sullivan organized a corporation, the American League...

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