John Boyd Co. v. Boston Gas Co.

How courts have described this case

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• dismissing 93A claim where owner of contaminated property never had any dealings with the original owner who caused the contamination
• noting the Supreme Judicial Court “has stressed the existence of some contractual or business relationship between the parties as a precursor to liability under Chapter 93A”
• “Notwithstanding the noble social purposes embodied in CERCLA, there is nothing peculiar to the problem of hazardous waste disposal that, in the absence of Congressional direction, would justify a policy that would ignore the corporate form altogether in these types of cases”
• “landowner owes no common law duty to subsequent owners with respect to the manner in which the land had been main tained prior to sale”
• plaintiffs failed to state cause of action under G. L. c. 93A, § 11, where there was no business connection between parties
• “landowner owes no common law duty to subsequent owners with respect to the manner in which the land had been maintained prior to sale”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).