111 Whitney Avenue, Inc. v. Commissioner of Mental Retardation

Opinion

PETERS, J.

Pursuant to a consent decree, the department of mental retardation undertook to find community group homes to replace institutional housing for adults with mental retardation. To this end, various state officials communicated with potential private investors to encourage them to underwrite the development of suitable group homes. The dispositive issue in this case is whether the plaintiff investors have proved that these communications matured into an enforceable oral agreement containing a guarantee of an uninterrupted income flow for at least ten years. The investors appeal…