Legal Opinion
Hunt v. PERKINS MACHINERY CO. INC.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 5, 1967PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCutter, J.
Hunt, an experienced commercial fisherman, got in touch with the defendant (Perkins), a distributor of Caterpillar Tractor Company’s products. He was consid ering the purchase of a diesel engine for his fishing boat. In the fall of 1960, Perkins’s sales manager, one Rideout, went to Hunt’s house in Orleans to acquaint him with the various Caterpillar diesel engines available. At Rideout’s suggestion, Hunt went to Maine to look at a boat equipped with such an engine. In January, 1961, Hunt signed a purchase order for one Caterpillar Model D330 engine with a 1.2 to 1 reduction gear (instead of…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Roto-Lith, Ltd. v. F. P. Bartlett & Co., Inc.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1962
- Kurriss v. Conrad & Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1942
- Kergald v. Armstrong Transfer Express Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1953
- Dekofski v. LeiteMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1957
- Hadley v. Hillcrest Dairy, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1961
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3Cited by33 opinions
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- Woodruff v. Clark County Farm Bureau Cooperative Assoc., Inc.Indiana Court of Appeals · 1972
- Collins Radio Co. of Dallas v. BellCourt of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma · 1981
- Geo. C. Christopher & Son, Inc. v. Kansas Paint & Color Co.Supreme Court of Kansas · 1974
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