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· 5/30/1989

Schleissner v. Town of Provincetown

Citations

  • 538 N.E.2d 995
  • 27 Mass. App. Ct. 392
  • 1989 Mass. App. LEXIS 304

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • plaintiffs emotional distress separately compensable where she had suffered “considerable anxiety and distress over the repeated flooding and threat of flooding”
  • “The determination whether the town has created a nuisance depends on whether it is making reasonable use of its property to control the collection and disposal of surface waters”
  • town’s storm water disposal system which periodically flooded plaintiff’s property constituted nuisance

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Judges: Greaney, Armstrong, Kass

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