Claim of Lovett v. Buck

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• recognizing long standing rule in New York that a contract may preclude the remedy of specific performance if it provides that a specific damage remedy is the sole and exclusive remedy
• recognizing long standing rule in New York that a contract may preclude the remedy of specific performance if it provides that a specific damage remedy is the sole and exclusive remedy
• rejecting exclusion of specific performance in favor of party seeking to compel defendant, inter alia, to perform his contractual obligation to buy plaintiffs interest in a jointly-held corporation
• equitable relief for breach of contract available where remedy at law inadequate and contract did not specifically bar equitable relief
• “For there to be a complete bar to equitable relief there must be something more, such as explicit language in the contract that the liquidated damages provision was to be the sole remedy.”
• “For 9 there to be a complete bar to equitable relief there must be something more, such 10 as explicit language in the contract that the liquidated damages provision was 11 to be the sole remedy.”

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