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· 2/2/1968

F. A. Bartlett Tree Expert Co. v. Barrington

Citations

  • 233 N.E.2d 756
  • 353 Mass. 585
  • 1968 Mass. LEXIS 694

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that change in employee’s “rate of compensation and sales area” constituted “far reaching changes [that] strongly suggest[edl that the parties had abandoned their old arrangement and had entered into a new relationship”
  • noting that parties' conduct subsequent to changes in employee's position was inconsistent with an intention that the original remained in effect
  • noting that parties’ conduct subsequent to changes in employee’s position was inconsistent with an intention that the original remained in effect
  • observing that changes in the employee's remuneration and sales area, memorialized in a new contract that the employee refused to sign, \strongly suggest that the parties had abandoned their old arrangement and had entered into a new relationship\
  • observing that changes in the employee’s remuneration and sales area, memorialized in a new contract that the employee refused to sign, “strongly suggest that the parties had abandoned their old arrangement and had entered into a new relationship”
  • declining to enforce a contract where the parties’ actions were inconsistent with the belief that that contract was valid

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Judges: Wilkins, Spalding, Cutter, Kirk, Reardon, Beaudreau

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