HUNT v. RICE

No. 87-309.

25 Mass. App. Ct. 622 (1988)

521 N.E.2d 751

ROBERT B. HUNT & another vs. HARRY F. RICE & another, executors.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

April 15, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Renehan (Bruce E. Falby, William F. Kehoe, Stanley H. Rudman & Dana F. Rodin with him) for the defendants.

John D. Donovan, Jr. (R.K. Gad, III, with him) for the plaintiffs.

Present: BROWN, KAPLAN, & KASS, JJ.


KASS, J.

Among the assets left by Amelia Peabody upon her death was a choice forty-acre property, "Mill Farm," in Dover. Her executors elected to sell it by inviting sealed bids from interested parties whom the executors had previously approved. Robert B. and Katherine L. Hunt submitted the highest sealed bid. The question before us is whether the executors' response to the Hunt bid produced an enforceable contract. We hold that it did and affirm the judgment below...

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