Cappadona v. Riverside 400 Function Room, Inc.
| Court | United States State Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts |
| Writing for the Court | Before HENNESSEY; HENNESSEY |
| Citation | 360 N.E.2d 1048,372 Mass. 167 |
| Parties | Thomas F. CAPPADONA v. RIVERSIDE 400 FUNCTION ROOM, INC. (and a companion case 1 ). |
| Decision Date | 14 March 1977 |
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v.
RIVERSIDE 400 FUNCTION ROOM, INC. (and a companion case
1).
Decided March 14, 1977.
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[372 Mass. 168] Roy F. Kipp, Boston, for plaintiffs.
Daniel B. Greenberg, Concord, for defendant.
Before [372 Mass. 167] HENNESSEY, C.J., and QUIRICO, KAPLAN and WILKINS, JJ.
[372 Mass. 168] HENNESSEY, Chief Justice.
The plaintiffs (the Cappadonas) appeal pursuant to G.L. c. 211, § 3, from the denial by a single justice of this court of petitions for relief from a Superior Court interlocutory order which stayed proceedings in two contract actions. There was no error. We hold, once again, that a litigant cannot obtain appellate review by the full court of an interlocutory order which was not reported to us by the judge who entered it, regardless of the procedural route pursued, Kargman v. Superior Court, --- Mass. ---, ---, a 357 N.E.2d 300 (1976), and that we exercise our extraordinary power to grant discretionary relief from such an order under G.L. c. 211, § 3, only to protect substantive rights. Rollins Environmental Servs. Inc. v. Superior Court, --- Mass. ---, ---, b 330 N.E.2d 814 (1975).
The litigation underlying these appeals concerns two promissory notes executed by Leisure Sports Investment Corporation (Leisure) to Riverside Enterprises, Inc. The defendant (Riverside), Leisure's wholly owned subsidiary, guaranteed the notes, and Riverside Enterprises, Inc., assigned them to the Cappadonas. Leisure filed a petition in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts under a 11 of the Bankruptcy Act in January, 1975. In April, 1976, the Cappadonas sued Riverside, as guarantor, for payment of the notes, then due.
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A Superior Court judge ordered that all proceedings concerning the notes be stayed until Leisure's bankruptcy proceedings are completed. The Cappadonas brought petitions for relief from this interlocutory order to the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County under G.L. c. 231, § 118. They alleged that the order violates their rights to prompt adjudication and constitutional due process of law because Riverside, as a corporate entity distinct from Leisure, is not subject to the jurisdiction currently [372 Mass. 169] being exercised by the Federal Bankruptcy Court. After a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court denied the Cappadonas' petitions, they sought...
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