SULLIVAN v. COMMONWEALTH


335 Mass. 619 (1957)

142 N.E.2d 347

T. GREGORY SULLIVAN & another vs. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

April 1, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Sullivan, for the petitioners.

George Fingold, Attorney General, & David L. Winter, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commonwealth, submitted a brief.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WILLIAMS, WHITTEMORE, & CUTTER, JJ.


WHITTEMORE, J.

These are the petitioners' exceptions to the direction of a verdict for the Commonwealth on the trial of their petition for the assessment of damages under G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 79 for injuries caused to the house owned by them at 320 Chestnut Street, Newton, by rock blasting in the course of the construction of an aqueduct to improve the distribution of water to the metropolitan water district.

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