Estate of Michael Lewis v. Concord General Mutual Insurance Company

ALEXANDER, J.,

with whom MEAD, J., joins, dissenting.

[¶ 20] The Court’s opinion competently discusses the principles of law incident to resolution of a matter on summary judgment. However, in suggesting that the claims by the Estate create a dispute as to material fact that what happened here only constituted “preliminary negotiations” and not a final sale and transfer of ownership, the Court minimizes undisputed facts that establish, as a matter of law, that the transaction at issue here was a final sale and transfer of ownership. By minimizing the undisputed facts, the Court alters our law…