Legal Opinion
Sharratt v. Housing Innovations, Inc.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 22, 1974PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, J.
The plaintiffs appeal from an order sustaining the demurrer to both counts of their amended declaration. We first summarize the facts as stated in the amended declaration which, for the purposes of this appeal, we must assume to be true. Loughery v. Central Trust Co. 258 Mass. 172, 177 (1927).
The plaintiff John Sharratt is a registered architect and principal stockholder of the plaintiff John Sharratt Associates, Inc. In 1972 the corporate plaintiff entered into a contract with a development corporation to design, as the architect, a project known as “Madison Park Houses.” Samuel Glaser and…
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