Legal Opinion
Sacks v. Martin Equipment Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 1, 1955PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
This is an action of contract or tort in two counts. The first count is for breach of an agreement to deliver a dry cleaning unit which the plaintiff purchased from the defendant. The second count is for inducing one Murphy to break a contract with the plaintiff to buy the unit referred to in the first count. The answer contains a general denial and sets up the statute of frauds. The trial judge directed a verdict for the defendant on each count. There are exceptions to that action of the judge and to rulings on evidence.
The plaintiff’s case on the first count seems to be this. He made an…
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