Legal Opinion
Richard J. Trifiro v. New York Life Insurance Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 26, 1988No. 87-1815PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PETTINE, Senior District Judge.
The present appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts sounds in contract and tort. In the court below, appellant brought claims for breach of contract, deceit, negligent misrepresentation, a violation of Mass.G.L. c. 93A and promissory estoppel. Appellee won a summary judgment on all counts and appellant appealed.
The Formation of a Contract
If the laws of contract were formalized as a deductive system, one of its most basic axioms would be that the formation of a contract requires the manifestation of mutual…
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