Stroczynski v. Shell Oil Co.

This is a petition to establish a report. The underlying action to which it relates is a claim sounding in tort seeking damages for alleged physical and mental injuries to the plaintiffs and to their property by reason of the escape of certain dangerous liquid hydrocarbons stored in defendant’s storage tanks. Defendant’s answer denied the operative allegations of the complaint, and raised the Statute of Limitations as a defense.

Upon transfer agreeable to General Laws Chapter 231, § 102C, the case was tried in the district court, resulting in a finding for the plaintiffs for $30,000.00 on the…