Contracts—Email Notices—Although Email Notice Was Not Registered or Certified Mail, as Required by Contract, Court Found That Email Did Not Undermine the Objectives of the Notice Requirement—Defendants’ Counsel Had Received and Responded to the Email Notice and Also Used Email as a Means of Communicating Notice and the Notice Provision Itself Could Be Modified By Email

The plaintiff sought a judicial declaration that she had validly exercised a right to terminate a contract to purchase residential property (contract), because of the condition of the property’s septic system and that the defendants had breached their contractual duty to return the plaintiff’s deposit. The defendants denied liability and asserted counterclaims for breach of contract, breach of covenant of good faith and fair dealing and for slander of title.

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