COOPER v. BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY


342 Mass. 38 (1961)

172 N.E.2d 117

JOHN JOSEPH COOPER & another vs. BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 7, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sturtevant Burr, for the defendant.

Thomas A. Brett, (Nathaniel H. Ponn with him,) for the plaintiffs.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WILLIAMS, CUTTER, & KIRK, JJ.


KIRK, J.

This is an action of tort to recover for personal injuries sustained by the infant plaintiff when he was burned by contact with an uncovered return pipe of a convector in an apartment of a building owned and managed by the defendant where the plaintiff lived with his father who was a tenant of the defendant under a written lease. There is a count for consequential damages by the father. G.L.c. 231, § 6A, as inserted by St. 1939, c. 372, § 1. Verdicts...

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