· 10/25/1990
Alexander v. Berman
Citations
- 560 N.E.2d 1295
- 29 Mass. App. Ct. 458
- 1990 Mass. App. LEXIS 580
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that plaintiff was a broker where he brought together two parties to a transaction that had known each other for ten years
- stating that the legislative intent was to “discourage claims for commission based on conversation which persons heard differently or remembered differently”
- imposing a reasonable time in a nonexclusive brokerage agreement to sell a business held proper
- “Introduction in 1985 of the special business brokerage Statute of Frauds manifested a legislative purpose to discourage claims for commission based on conversation which persons heard differently or remembered differently.”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Kass, Kaplan, Ireland
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