NORTHAMPTON A tangled 3½-year court battle among family members with an interest in one of New England’s largest potato growers has been substantially resolved, with rulings in favor of the Szawlowski companies of Hatfield and their principal.
Because he did not serve notice in a timely manner, a trustee waived his right to seek an independent appraisal of the value of family businesses controlled by the decedent’s surviving brothers, dooming a breach-of-contract claim, a Superior Court judge has decided. In Szawlowski Potato Farms, Inc., et al. v. Szawlowski, et al., Judge Kenneth