PROFFIT v. COMMONWEALTH


385 Mass. 781 (1982)

434 N.E.2d 190

GERALD PROFFIT vs. COMMONWEALTH.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Plymouth.

April 12, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James J. Caruso, Assistant Attorney General (Vincent DiCianni, Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the Commonwealth.

William G. Billingham for the plaintiff.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


O'CONNOR, J.

The complaint, filed in the Superior Court on March 22, 1978, alleges that the plaintiff sustained injuries in a fall on September 20, 1977, resulting from the negligence of one of the defendant's employees for whose conduct the defendant is responsible. On February 2, 1981, the defendant filed a motion for dismissal or summary judgment, which the trial judge treated as a motion for summary judgment. The basis of the motion was that G.L.c. 258 provides...

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