Legal Opinion
Phipps Products Corp. v. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided December 7, 1982PublishedCited by 67 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
The defendant Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) declined to carry out its expressed obligation to sell premises at 500 Arborway in Boston to the plaintiff Phipps Products Corp. (Phipps). That obligation was set forth in a purchase and sale agreement, dated May 18, 1978, between the MBTA and Phipps. The MBTA refused to transfer the property on the ground that it had not complied with the bidding requirements of G. L. c. 161A, §5 (b), concerning the sale of MBTA real estate. Summary judgment was entered for the MBTA on Phipps’s complaint for specific performance of the agreement…
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