Legal Opinion
Constance Chester v. City of Medford
Massachusetts District Court, Appellate Division
Decided April 8, 1994PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMerrick, J.
This is an action pursuant to G.L.c. 84 to recover for injuries sustained by the plaintiff in a fall on a sidewalk in the City of Medford.
The trial court entered judgment for the plaintiff in the amount of $5,000.00. The defendant, City of Medford (“the City”), has appealed both the trial judge’s disposition of two requests for rulings by the City and the judge’s findings of fact that the sidewalk defect was the “sole cause” of the plaintiff’s accident and had existed for a sufficient period of time prior to such accident for the City, in the exercise of reasonable care, to have discovered…
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