Sheinkopf v. Eskin

The issues presented here are whether a single justice of this court had jurisdiction to authorize a late appeal from a decree of a Probate Court allowing a will, and, assuming such jurisdiction, whether the single justice abused his discretion by allowing such a late appeal in the circumstances of this case.

Clearly, as this appeal relates only to an interlocutory stage of the proceedings, it is prematurely presented to us and for that reason must be dismissed. We recently stated the reasons which compel such a dismissal in Giacobbe v. First Coolidge Corp., ante, 309 (1975).

Nevertheless, we…