A recent case illustrates how an owner could bind himself to sell a multi-million dollar home merely by an exchange of e-mail.
In the case of Shattuck v. Klotzbach, 2001 Mass. Super. LEXIS 642 (Dec. 11, 2001), the buyer sued to enforce his contract to buy a home and the seller moved to dismiss the suit. A Massachusetts court denied that motion even though the buyer was relying only on an exchange of e-mail, which anticipated that an attorney would draft an agreement of sale requiring the buyer to put up a deposit check for 10 percent. None of that ever happened because the seller apparently backed out of the deal before the buyer had a chance to follow up with his end of the deal.
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