Legal Opinion
Rogers v. Metropolitan District Commission
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided June 29, 1984PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKass, J.
In her complaint, the plaintiff alleges that she fell and was hurt because of a defect in a sidewalk maintained by the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) along Revere Beach Parkway. The MDC moved for judgment on the pleadings (Mass.R.Civ.P. 12[c], 365 Mass. 756 [1974]), on the ground that G. L. c. 92, § 36, immunizes the Commonwealth *338from liability for injury sustained upon a sidewalk under the jurisdiction of the MDC. A judge of the Superior Court concluded that St. 1978, c. 512, § 18, had impliedly repealed G. L. c. 92, § 36, and had subjected the MDC to suit under G. L. c. 258 (the…
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