Legal Opinion
Hill v. City of Boston
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided March 2, 1989No. Civ. A. 88-1647-WDPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
WOODLOCK, District Judge.
This action is brought against the City of Boston and certain of its police employees by the co-administrators of the estate of Dorothy Gilbert, a woman found hanging in her cell after having been arrested, apparently for public intoxication. The case was commenced in state court and comes to this court on a petition for removal.
Counts One and Three arise under Massachusetts statutory provisions.
In Count One the plaintiffs allege negligence by the City in connection with the decedent’s arrest and supervision, creating liability under the…
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