Legal Opinion
Phachansiri v. City of Lowell
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided December 2, 1993No. 92-P-905PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPorada, J.
The plaintiff" filed a negligence action in the Superior Court against the defendant (city) for the wrongful death of her son John, and for personal injuries received by her son Joseph. John, age seven, drowned and Joseph, age five, was injured in the city’s South Common swimming pool on September 18, 1988. On that date, the pool was closed for the season. The boys had gained access to the pool by crawling through a hole they apparently had dug underneath a ten-foot chain link fence topped by two feet of barbed wire and then by climbing over an inner five-foot chain link fence around the…
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