Dinsky v. Town of Framingham

How courts have described this case

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• building code did not create special duty to individual property owners upon which an action for negligent issuance of building permits could be predicated
• building code did not create special duty to individual property owners upon which an action for negligent issuance of building permits could be predicated
• discussing whether State Building Code and related statutory provisions evince a legislative intent to create a private cause of action against municipality for violations of the Code
• defective grading by town was unknowable by plaintiff because it did not manifest itself until flood conditions occurred
• “[T]he Act simply removed the defense of immunity in certain tort actions against the Commonwealth, municipalities and other governmental subdivisions”
• no private cause of action for building inspector’s negligent inspection since duty owed to the public at large

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).