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241 Mass. 195

Holmes v. Sullivan

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1922-03-22

Tort for an unlawful entry upon the plaintiff’s land and the building thereon of a platform and steps which caused surface water to be drained upon the land. Writ dated January 18, 1921.

Relies on Altman v. Aronson

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1922-03-22

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Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1993

5 state decisions

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By the Court.

¶1This is an action of tort. The wrong of which complaint is made was the unlawful entry by the defendant upon the plaintiff’s land, and, as matters of aggravation, the building thereon of a platform and steps whereby surface water was drained on to the plaintiff’s estate. The charge of the presiding judge is not reported and must be presumed to have been comprehensive *196and accurate. The single exception is to the refusal to grant this request presented by the plaintiff: “The plaintiff is entitled to damages for mental suffering, if the jury find that the defendant acted with gross carelessness of the plaintiff’s rights in the premises.” There is no allegation on this point in the declaration. There is no evidence in the record of such gross carelessness. Altman v. Aronson, 231 Mass. 588, 591 to 593. Hence there was no error in refusing to give any instruction upon the subject. Whether the ruling requested was sound in law need not be considered.

¶2Exceptions overruled.

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