Minaya v. Massachusetts Credit Union Share Ins. Corp.

In this action, the plaintiffs allege that their dwellings were destroyed by a fire proximately caused by the dangerous and hazardous conditions maintained by the defendant on an adjacent property. The defendant’s answer was a denial, and an affirmative defense that, on the date of the fire, September 9, 1982, the owner of the property was the city of Lynn, because, on August 13, 1982, a final decree in the city’s tax lien case against the defendant had been recorded. In its answer, the defendant claimed that it “was not in control, did not own nor have any interest in the premises” on the…