Parks v. Johnson

1. Jury instructions. For purposes of this appeal, we have assumed, as the defendant does in her appeal, that Mass.R.Civ.P. 51(b), 365 Mass. 816 (1974), was applicable in the small claims jury-of-six trial below. See G. L. c. 218, § 23, fourth par.; Rule 10(b) of the Uniform Small Claims Rules, as amended (1987). As the record stands, there was no objection to the jury instructions, and we decline to reach the merits of the defendant’s arguments concerning the allegedly deficient jury instructions. See Callahan v. A. J. Welch Equip. Corp., 36 Mass. App. Ct. 608, 612 (1994); Read v. Mt. Tom…