DEAS v. DEMPSEY


403 Mass. 468 (1988)

530 N.E.2d 1239

RHODA DEAS vs. BARBARA DEMPSEY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 7, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven W. Phillips (Charlotte H. Harrison with him) for the plaintiff.

William L. Pardee, Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.


NOLAN, J.

The sole issue here is the correctness of the trial judge's allowance of the defendant's motion for summary judgment. This resulted in dismissal of the plaintiff's complaint which sought to make out a case under the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act, G.L.c. 12, § 11I. We transferred the plaintiff's appeal to this court on our own motion. There was no error.

The test whether a motion for summary judgment should be allowed is twofold: whether there...

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