Legal Opinion
Black v. Coastal Oil New England, Inc.
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided September 16, 1998No. 96-P-1215PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJacobs, J.
The plaintiffs have been owners, since 1983, of *462industrial property in Malden (the site). In 1990,2 they filed a complaint in the Superior Court seeking damages from the defendant pursuant to G. L. c. 21E, the Massachusetts Oil and Hazardous Material Release Prevention Act, for contamination of the site. The contamination occurred between 1929 and 1975 during the operation of a fuel storage and distribution business by a company whose liabilities were ultimately assumed by the defendant in the course of a corporate merger. Following a jury-waived trial, judgment was entered awarding the…
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