Porter v. Spring

This is a suit in equity wherein the plaintiff seeks to have set aside a claim for curtesy filed by him with respect to the settlement of the estate of his testate wife. After a demurrer to the bill had been overruled, the case was referred to a master, under a rule which required him to make report of his findings together with such facts and questions of law as either party might request.

The evidence is not reported. Therefore the facts found by the master must stand unless they are mutually inconsistent or contradictory. Glover v. Waltham Laundry Co. 235 Mass. 330, 334, and cases there…