Legal Opinion
Salem Sound Development Corp. v. City of Salem
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided September 20, 1988No. 87-531PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtArmstrong, J.
In 1983 the then mayor of Salem forwarded to the city council, for its approval, a proposed twenty-year lease of land to the plaintiff for the construction of a marina on Winter Island in Salem Sound. One of the provisions of the lease restricted the size of the marina, which was “not [to] include more than one hundred fifty (150) slips without the express written consent of the City.” The lessor was defined *397as “the City of Salem, Massachusetts, acting through its Mayor, Jean A. Levesque.”
The city council’s committee on transportation amended the draft lease by deleting the words “without the…
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