Harris v. Munro

This is a summary process action to recover possession of a house in Bil-lerica, Massachusetts. After trial, judgment was entered for the plaintiff-landlord, and the defendant-tenants filed this Dist/Mun. Cts. RAM, Rule 8C appeal. The sole question presented by the appeal is the adequacy of service of the notice to quit3

*77The record includes copies of a December 8,1997 notice to quit prepared in letter form and signed by the plaintiff, and a constable’s return of service which recites that on December 18,1997, the notice to quit was left at the “last and usual place of abode, wedged in the…