Rex Lumber Co. v. Acton Block Co.

How courts have described this case

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• reducing award of fees under G. L. c. 93A because trial was on “straightforward contract case with a single issue dividing the parties”
• reviewing court deferred to the trial judge’s finding of the defendant’s “deliberately” late notice of repudiation of an oral agreement in violation of G. L. c. 93A
• stating the general rule that “amendments to a contract that is within the Statute of Frauds are themselves within the Statute of Frauds”
• allowing an oral agreement to extend the closing date stated in a purchase and sale agreement
• separating rationale used when multiplying damages from that used when assessing fees and costs
• oral modification of contract subject to Statute of Frauds may be enforced where modification concerns time of performance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).