O'Connor v. E. J. DiCarlo & Sons, Inc.

The plaintiffs in these companion cases, owners of residential properties located, respectively, fifty and five hundred feet from the site of blasting by the corporate defendant, sued for the damages caused to their properties by tremors occasioned by the blasting. They failed in the Superior Court through *928application of the rule in this Commonwealth, recognized most recently in Clark-Aiken Co. v. Cromwell-Wright Co., 367 Mass. 70, 83 n.14, 84 (1975), that consequential damages caused by blasting are actionable only on proof of negligence, although there is strict liability for direct damages…