Lenny v. Mellody

Parentheticals

• section of graded deck of offshore platform which gave way beneath plaintiff’s feet and plummeted into the Gulf of Mexico constituted “ruin”

  Buxton v. Amoco Oil Co.

• counsel had reasonable basis for not calling attention to error in charge on voluntary manslaughter where strategy was to present choice between conviction and acquittal on self-defense

  Commonwealth v. DeBose