Legal Opinion
Simon v. Solomon
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 18, 1982PublishedCited by 255 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHennessey, C.J.
In this appeal, a landlord challenges a judgment entered after trial to a jury in the Housing Court Department of the Trial Court, awarding damages and attorneys’ fees to a tenant for injuries caused by unsanitary conditions in her apartment.
Gem Realty Company (Gem) 1 managed a large number of apartment buildings in Boston. It rented many of its apartments to low income tenants under a Federal rent supplement program. From December, 1973, to November, 1977, Celeste Solomon and her two young sons lived in the basement apartment of a building managed by Gem. In December, 1976, Gem began summary…
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