HODESS v. BONEFONT


401 Mass. 693 (1988)

519 N.E.2d 258

BERNARD HODESS & others vs. EMILY BONEFONT.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

February 16, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger J. Brunelle (Eugene L. Rubin with him) for the plaintiffs.

Nancy E. Rae for the defendant.

Charles Harak, Ernest Winsor & Richard M.W. Bauer, for Massachusetts Union of Public Housing Tenants, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

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


O'CONNOR, J.

This is an action brought in the Housing Court by the owners of Greenhill Towers, a multi-unit residential development in Worcester, to evict the defendant from a unit she occupied with her three children. After a trial, the judge ordered the entry of judgment for the defendant tenant for possession. The plaintiffs appealed to the Appeals Court and that court reversed the judgment. 23 Mass...

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