Legal Opinion
Doten v. Doten
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 10, 1985PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The defendant appeals from an order of the Probate Court dismissing his appeal from a judgment nisi of divorce because of his failure to order a transcript, as required by Mass. R. A. P. 8 (b) (1), as appearing in 378 Mass. 924 (1979). We transferred the case to this court on our own motion, and we affirm.
The defendant argues that his appeal should not have been dismissed for failure to order a transcript since no evidentiary hearing occurred from which a transcript could have been made. Alternatively, he challenges the judge’s finding that this failure was the product of…
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