· 6/23/1982
Huff v. City of Holyoke
Citations
- 436 N.E.2d 952
- 386 Mass. 582
- 1982 Mass. LEXIS 1546
How courts have described this case
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- holding that by framing her complaint in terms of common-law nuisance, plaintiff could not avoid statutory limit on recovery of damages against municipality
- holding that by framing her complaint in terms of common- law nuisance, the plaintiff could not avoid the statutory limit on the recovery of damages against a municipality
- holding that by framing her complaint in terms of common- law nuisance, the plaintiff could not avoid the statutory limit on the recovery of damages against a municipality
- where the plaintiff, while driving his motorcycle on public way, died after he struck a chain that a city employee had stretched across street
- wire stretched across the roadway by a city employee found to be a defect
- wire stretched across roadway deemed a covered defect
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Judges: Hennessey, Liacos, Abrams, Nolan, O'Connor
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