TRINITY CHURCH IN THE CITY v. JOHN HANCOCK MUT. L. INS.


399 Mass. 43 (1987)

502 N.E.2d 532

TRINITY CHURCH IN THE CITY OF BOSTON vs. JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 15, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anthony E. Battelle (James D. Smeallie & Robert M. Ruzzo with him) for the plaintiff.

Robert M. Hacking (Calum B. Anderson & Leonard F. Zandrow, Jr., with him) for John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company & others.

Richard W. Renehan (Jane S. Schacter with him) for I.M. Pei and Partners.

Raymond J. Kenney, Jr., for Mueser, Rutledge, Wentworth & Johnston, was present but did not argue.

Present: WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.


LYNCH, J.

This case arises out of property damage sustained by the plaintiff, Trinity Church in the City of Boston, during construction of the John Hancock Tower Building in Copley Square. On January 29, 1975, the plaintiff filed a complaint against John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company and seventeen other defendants involved in the construction of the Hancock tower. At the defendants' request the claims against the...

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