Ingersoll Grove Nursing Home, Inc. v. Springfield Gas Light Co.

The plaintiffs here are appealing from an order of a Superior Court judge dismissing their appeals from the allowance of the defendant’s motions for directed verdicts in actions for damages caused by the explosion of a stove which occurred at the corporate plaintiffs premises. We conclude that the plaintiffs’ original appeals were properly dismissed. 1. The bills of exceptions filed by the plaintiffs on May 16, 1974, were treated as timely notices of appeal when the new rules of civil procedure went into effect on July 1, 1974. Mass.R.Civ.P. 1A, par. 7, 365 Mass. 732 (1974). In lieu of the…