· 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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