Legal Opinion
Vaks v. Ryan
Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division
Decided February 28, 2014Published
1Opinion of the CourtSwan, J.
In Vaks v. Ryan, 2012 Mass. App. Div. 17 (“Vaks D, we deferred determining the enforceability of a contract’s provision on attorney’s fees to another day. That day has arrived.
Rimma Vaks and her husband Steven Mangano (collectively, “the Vaks”) sued Ryan Auction Co. and its owner, Denise Ryan (collectively, “Ryan”), on various causes of action arising from the auction sale by Ryan of some of the Vaks’ personalty. By a multipage, preprinted form (the “agreement”), the Vaks consigned to Ryan over 150 items of furniture and other property. The front of each page of the agreement listed property…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Ora Lee Williams v. Walker-Thomas Furniture Company, William Thorne v. Walker-Thomas Furniture CompanyCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1965
- Hume v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Blaise Alexander Gerald Freeman v. Anthony International, L.PCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 2003
- Zapatha v. Dairy Mart, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Delta Funding Corp. v. HarrisSupreme Court of New Jersey · 2006
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