Legal Opinion
Spence v. O'BRIEN
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided March 21, 1983PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPerretta, J.
The Boston Housing Authority (BHA) brought a summary process action against Ellen O’Brien (tenant), claiming that she had allowed illegal drug transactions to occur on its premises at the Washington Beech Development (Development) in Roslindale. A judge of the Boston Housing Court found that the tenant had permitted her apartment to be used for the possession and the sale of illegal drugs in violation of certain clauses of her lease and that the BHA had “good cause” to evict her under G. L. c. 121B, § 32, as amended through St. 1979, c. 669, § l. 2 The judge also concluded that even though…
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