Legal Opinion
Cities Service Oil Co. v. National Shawmut Bank
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 14, 1961PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWhittemore, J.
In this petition in equity in the Probate Court for Middlesex County, Cities Service Oil Company (Cities Service) sought specific performance by National Shawmut Bank of Boston, administrator of the estate of Mary L. Rich, of an agreement by Rich in a lease to Cities Service, to convey to it the leased property and adjacent property upon its exercise of an option contained in the lease. The probate judge, after hearing, dismissed the petition.
The report of material facts incorporates the lease which had a ten year term ending on August 31,1959. The lease, on a lessor’s pxinted form, with…
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