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COMMESSO v. HINGHAM HOUSING AUTHORITY; HINGHAM

399 Mass. 805 (1987)

507 N.E.2d 247

MABEL L. COMMESSO vs. HINGHAM HOUSING AUTHORITY; TOWN OF HINGHAM, third-party defendant.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

May 7, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bartholomew V. Earle for the plaintiff.

Robert A. Curley, Jr. (Ernest K. Edie with him) for Hingham Housing Authority.

Chester A. Janiak for the town of Hingham.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

James M. McCreight, Richard M.W. Bauer, & Charles Harak for Tenants United for Public Housing Progress & another.

Rod Solomon, George K. Weber, & Myles W. McDonough for Boston Housing Authority.

Erik Lund & John Egan for Cambridge Housing Authority & others.

Alexander Kovel & Bernard M. Ortwein for Massachusetts Chapter, National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials & others.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., LIACOS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

LYNCH, J.

A judge of the Superior Court in Plymouth County reported the present case to the Appeals Court for a determination whether the defendant, Hingham Housing Authority (authority), was entitled to the allowance of its motion for summary judgment. We transferred the case to this court on our own motion. The plaintiff, Mabel L. Commesso, brought an action for personal injuries sustained on February 11, 1985, when she slipped and fell on ice in a driveway at her...

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