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WATERTOWN v. ARRIA

16 Mass. App. Ct. 331 (1983)

451 N.E.2d 443

TOWN OF WATERTOWN vs. RICHARD ARRIA & another.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

July 5, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard E. Pass for Richard Arria.

Gary S. Brackett for the plaintiff.

Francis X. Bellotti, Attorney General, & Thomas A. Barnico, Assistant Attorney General, for Civil Service Commission, submitted a brief.

Present: KASS, CUTTER, & SMITH, JJ.

CUTTER, J.

Richard Arria was appointed a police officer in Watertown (the town) in 1970. He experienced as a police officer various difficult incidents. In 1975, he "began having trouble coping with his job ... [and] sleeping." He "became nervous and upset, and deteriorated physically and emotionally." His family physician prescribed thirty quaaludes a month and valium. For quaaludes he "developed a tolerance" and "often relied on alcohol to help him sleep." On Christmas...

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