Conroy v. City of Boston

In this action the plaintiff, Thomas E. Conroy, seeks in accordance with Ch. 800 of the Acts and Resolves of 1970, to recover from the defendant, City of Boston, an amount equal to the difference between his average weekly salary and the amount he had received and was entitled to receive in the future in workmen’s compensation benefits when he became disabled as a result of an incident that took place on April 23, 1979.

Early in the morning of April 23, 1979, the plaintiff was chasing an escaping prisoner at the Deer Island House of Correction when, according to the trial judge’s finding of…