Laurin v. DeCarolis Construction Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• in Massachusetts, rights of purchaser under contract for sale of real property are contract rights rather than rights of ownership
• “the rights of the purchaser are contract rights rather than rights of ownership of real property”
• ability to assess diminution in value of land from which gravel was actually removed prevented damages from being speculative
• “The basic principle of contract damages is that the aggrieved party should be put in as good a position as if the other party had fully performed”
• regardless of plaintiff's possessory right, \[w]e should uphold . . . recovery [for conversion] if it would have been proper in an action of trespass on the case or in a suit in equity\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).