Murby v. Children's Hospital Corp.

Salinger, Kenneth W., J.

Plaintiffs oppose the plans by Boston Children’s Hospital to construct a new clinical building at its downtown Boston campus because the project as currently designed would destroy Prouly Garden. Plaintiffs have shown that the sixty-year-old, half-acre Prouty Garden is a quiet sanctuary for Hospital patients and their families and plays a valuable therapeutic role for many ailing children. Plaintiffs believe that the Hospital should be able to expand its clinical space without building on the site of Prouty Garden. That issue is not before the Court, which has no power…