Ribeiro v. Town of Granby

This is an action under G. L. c. 258, § 1 (1984 ed.), the Massachusetts Tort Claims Act, in which the plaintiffs, coadministrators of the estate of James A. Ribeiro, Jr., seek damages from the town of Granby (the town) for the death of their son in an apartment fire in January of 1983. The plaintiffs allege negligence on the part of a building inspector of the town, as well as members of the towns’s board of health, for their failure to require installation of a second means of egress from the decedent’s apartment. The plaintiffs seek damages from the town for the wrongful death and for the…