Iascone v. Baliestiero

This is an action in tort to recover damages for the defendant’s alleged negligence in causing a fire on premises owned by the plaintiffs. The defendant has appealed the court’s Dist./Mun. Cts. R.Civ.P., Rule 56 allowance of summary judgment for the plaintiffs.

The plaintiffs’ successful summary judgment motion was predicated upon: the defendant’s answers to interrogatories; certain requests for admissions posited by the plaintiffs and unanswered by the defendant; and a signed statement given by the defendant to the Medford Fire Department. The defendant’s presumptive admissions and statement…