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BRUM v. DARTMOUTH; KING v. COMMONWEALTH

428 Mass. 684 (1999)

ELAINE BRUM, administratrix, v. TOWN OF DARTMOUTH & others. FRANCES B. KING, administratrix, v. COMMONWEALTH & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol, Suffolk.

January 21, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Davis for town of Dartmouth & others.

James E. Riley, Jr., for Elaine Brum.

William J. Meade, Assistant Attorney General (Crispin Birnbaum, Assistant Attorney General, with him) for the Commonwealth & another.

Steven D. Frank (Paul K. Flavin with him) for Frances B. King.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Thomas J. Urbelis & Robert T. Ford for Massachusetts City Solicitors and Town Counsel Association.

Michael J. Long for Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents.

Leonard H. Kesten & Kurt B. Fliegauf for Massachusetts Municipal Association.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., ABRAMS, LYNCH, GREANEY, FRIED, MARSHALL, & IRELAND, JJ.

FRIED, J.

These cases raise issues under G. L. c. 258, § 10 (b) and (j), immunity provisions of the Massachusetts Tort Claims Act. The defendants in Brum v. Dartmouth, 44 Mass.App.Ct. 318 (1998), sought further appellate review after the decision of the Appeals Court overturned the Superior Court judge's order granting the defendants' motion to dismiss...

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