Melo v. General Electric Capital Auto Lease, Inc.

This is a Dist./Mun. Cts. R. A D. A., Rule 5, report by the trial judge of his interlocutory ruling denying the defendants’ motion for summary judgment. G.L.c. 231, §108. See generally Price-Hanson v. Pare, 1997 Mass. App. Div. 101, 102; Goldman v. Peterson, 1997 Mass. App. Div. 189 n.2.

The defendants’ motion sought summary judgment on the ground that the plaintiff’s action was barred by the three-year statute of limitations applicable to tort actions (G.L.c. 260, §2A). The report brings before us the interplay between statutes of limitations and the statute establishing the one-trial system…