Legal Opinion
Bank v. Thermo Elemental Inc.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 16, 2008PublishedCited by 85 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBotsford, J.
After trichloroethylene (TCE)4 was found in the groundwater beneath their property in Waltham, the plaintiff trustees of the Lincoln Street Trust (trustees; trust; the words are used interchangeably) undertook a response action pursuant to the Massachusetts Oil and Hazardous Material Release Prevention Act, G. L. c. 21E, eventually spending more than $800,000 in the effort. At issue in this case is the trustees’ endeavor to recover the costs incurred in carrying out this response from the several entities that successively leased the property between 1963 and 1988, as well as from corporate…
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