Legal Opinion
Sullivan v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 1, 1957PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWhittemore, J.
These are the petitioners’ exceptions to the direction of a verdict for the Commonwealth on the trial of their petition for the assessment of damages under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 79 for injuries caused to the house owned by them at 320 Chestnut Street, Newton, by rock blasting in the course of the construction of an aqueduct to improve the distribution of water to the metropolitan water district.
There was evidence from which the jury could have found that the blasting over a period of weeks or months between April, 1948, and August, 1949, caused serious injury to the petitioners’ house including…
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