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ALTER v. NEWTON

No. 91-P-1336.

35 Mass. App. Ct. 142 (1993)

617 N.E.2d 656

GRETA ALTER & others vs. CITY OF NEWTON.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

August 16, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frances E. Balin, Assistant City Solicitor (Daniel M. Funk, City Solicitor, with her) for the defendant.

Michael B. Bogdanow (John Carroll with him) for the plaintiffs.

Present: PERRETTA, KAPLAN, & DREBEN, JJ.

DREBEN, J.

On May 12, 1988, while sitting in an area of the schoolyard known as "the mall," Greta Alter, a freshman at Newton North High School, was hit in the eye by a lacrosse ball. The accident occurred at 4:00 P.M., during practice by the lacrosse team. Greta had just finished her track practice and was waiting with a classmate for her father to take her home. After the accident, the city erected a fence between "the mall" and the goal end of the lacrosse field...

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