Legal Opinion
Boston & Maine Corporation v. Town of Hampton
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 5, 1993No. 92-1832PublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KEETON, District Judge.
I. Introduction
On a snowy day in March, 1988, Ms. Jeanne Lynch was driving her car on Exe-ter Road in Hampton, New Hampshire. At the approach to a bridge, her car skidded over an icy patch of road. She lost control. The car crashed through the side railing of the bridge and fell twenty feet onto the railroad tracks below. The bridge and the railroad tracks were owned by Boston and Maine Corporation (“B & M”).
In July 1989, Lynch sued B & M in the Superior Court of New Hampshire (the “Lynch case”). She chose not to sue the Town of Hampton (“Hampton”). Though the record…
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