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SPENCE v. REEDER

382 Mass. 398 (1981)

416 N.E.2d 914

LEWIS H. SPENCE, receiver, & others vs. GEORGE REEDER & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

February 2, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur L. Johnson for George Reeder & another.

S. Stephen Rosenfeld (Margot Botsford with him) for Lewis H. Spence, receiver.

Edmund P. Daley, for Armando Perez & others, plaintiff class.

Gerard J. Clark, for Boston Public Housing Tenants Policy Council, Inc., plaintiff-intervener.

Robert M. Cohen, for Bromley Heath Tenant Management Corporation, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Richard C. Allen, Susan G. Anderson, Michael J. Ciota, Dean Amrose, Marc Lauritsen, James Bisceglia, James S. Singer, James F. Donnelly, Cushing Giesey, Julia K. Johnson & Nancy King, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Francis X. Bellotti, Attorney General, & Anthony P. Sager, Assistant Attorney General, for Secretary of Communities and Development, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., KAPLAN, WILKINS, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

By this action, the Boston Housing Authority (BHA), acting through its court-appointed receiver, sought to recover possession of residential premises in the Charles-town-Bunker Hill development leased under a written lease to the defendants (Reeders). This eviction proceeding was commenced as an adjunct to the long-continuing Perez litigation concerning housing conditions in BHA developments.2 The basic object of the...

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