Legal Opinion
Trans-Spec Truck Service, Inc. v. Caterpillar Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 30, 2008No. 07-1476PublishedCited by 451 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to apply the accrual and statute of limitations provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code of Massachusetts to breach of warranty claims brought by Trans-Spec Truck Service (“Trans-Spec”) against Caterpillar, Inc. Trans-Spec purchased twenty-two heavy-duty, custom-built trucks powered by Caterpillar engines. More than four and a half years after it took delivery of the trucks, Trans-Spec filed suit against Caterpillar, alleging breach of warranty, violation of Massachusetts’s unfair trade practices act, Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 93A, and negligence, arising…
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