W. Oliver Tripp Co. v. American Hoechst Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• “If the trial judge makes one of several possible choices of what facts are supported by the evidence, the judge’s choice is not clearly erroneous”
• trial judge found no basis for c. 93A claim, even though jury found for plaintiff on underlying breach of contract count
• trial judge may set aside verdict “to avoid idiosyncratic choice brought on by arbitrary determination, capricious disposition, or whimsical thinking”
• trial judge thought jury’s verdict on parallel contract count was wrong and determined there was no basis for a c. 93A claim founded on a failure by the defendant to perform under a distributorship contract
• puffery combined with reverse puffery not actionable without evidence of intentional misrepresentation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).