Legal Opinion
Buffum v. Town of Rockport
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided April 26, 1994No. 92-P-633PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreenberg, J.
More than three years after the town of Rockport was defaulted in this tort action for failure to answer the plaintiffs interrogatories, a hearing was held in the Superior Court to assess damages pursuant to Mass.R.Civ.P. 55(b)(2), 365 Mass. 822 (1974). The complaint, filed in 1986, alleged negligence on the town’s part for failure to remove accumulated snow and ice at its water filtration plant, which caused the plaintiffs slip and fall injury, and contained an “ad damnum clause” of $50,000. The Superior Court docket indicates that in 1988 a default judgment was entered against the town. In…
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