Bump v. Robbins

After a bifurcated trial in the Superior Court of common law contract and tort claims before a jury, and, four years later, G. L. c. 93A claims before the judge who had presided over the jury trial, judgment entered awarding money damages to Morrison M. Bump, a business broker, against all three defendants, LRC, Inc. (LRC), Robert Robbins, its president and principal shareholder, and Microwave Research Corp. (MRC). Bump’s claims arose out of the following circumstances: a series of communications, oral and written, between Bump and Robbins which, Bump alleges, resulted in the formation of an…