Chu Tai v. City of Boston

Were the decision ours in the first instance, we would not have been inclined to grant the city of Boston’s motion for relief from judgment entered against it in this motor vehicle tort case. Such, however, is the deference afforded trial judges when they act on rule 60(b) motions that we decline to reverse the judgment. A judge of the Superior Court allowed the city’s motion under Mass.R.Civ.P. 60(b)(1), 365 Mass. 828 (1974). A single justice of the Appeals Court granted the plaintiffs leave to bring an interlocutory appeal from the Superior Court judge’s ruling.

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