Legal Opinion
Harry Stoller & Co. v. City of Lowell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 9, 1992PublishedCited by 105 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wilkins,, J.
On April 23, 1978, five brick buildings in Lowell and their contents were destroyed by fire. The fire started on the sixth floor of one of the buildings. Three of the buildings, including the one in which the fire started, had sprinkler systems. In this action, the owner of the premises sought recovery against the city of Lowell under G. L. c. 258 (1990 ed.), based on the claimed negligence of the city’s firefighters in combating the fire.
The jury in a 1990 trial returned a verdict of $850,000 for the plaintiff. Because of the statutory limitation on the amount for which a…
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