· 3/15/1849
Bacon v. City of Boston
Citations
- 57 Mass. 174
How courts have described this case
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- finding Appellants' alleged acts of selling their own property, moving into and working on a ranch, and spending over $150,000 to finish the ranch house were not unequivocally referable to a life estate when they could have been a down payment for purchase or payments on a lease
- “[C]ourts must avoid an interpretation of a contract that leads to an absurd result.”
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Judges: Dewey
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