Yalenezian v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of tort under R. L. c. 211, § 8, for three fourths of the value of property alleged to have been taken away from the plaintiffs’ stores in Boston just before midnight on September 9, 1919, and on the morning of September 10, just after midnight.
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Two actions of tort under R. L. c. 211, § 8, for three fourths of the value of property alleged to have been taken away from the plaintiffs’ stores in Boston just before midnight on September 9, 1919, and on the morning of September 10, just after midnight. Writs in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated, respectively, November 18, 1919, and February 3, 1920. The material evidence and requests of the defendant at the trials of the respective actions in the Municipal Court are described in the opinion. In the first action there was a finding for the plaintiff in the sum of $271.68,…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
These are actions of tort, brought under R. L. c. 211, § 8, to recover of the defendant three fourths of the value of certain personal property of the plaintiff, alleged to have been destroyed or injured by twelve or more persons “riotously or tumultuously assembled ” on the evening of September 9, 1919, and the morning of September 10, 1919.
Section 8 reads: “ If property of the value of fifty dollars or more is destroyed or if property is injured to that amount by twelve or more persons who are riotously or tumultuously assembled, the city or town within which the property was situated…
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