Lewis v. Emerson

How courts have described this case

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• finding that broker’s commission was due when seller breached valid purchase and sale agreement by refusing without justification to convey property as promised
• standard met when party raised “defense without even a colorable basis in law [that] represented a significant part of [party’s] defense”
• “it is not fair to prevent the parties’ exercise of . . . appellate rights on the basis of clerical niceties”
• “it is not fair to prevent the parties’ exercise of. . . appellate rights on the basis of clerical niceties”
• purpose of clerk docket entry rules of Mass.R.Civ.P. 79 is to “clarify the time from which post judgment action shall be commenced”
• purpose of clerk docket entry rules of Mass.R.Civ.P. 79 is to “clarify the time from which post judgment action shall be commenced”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).