Hand v. Nickerson

On report. This case was reported to this court by a Justice of the Superior Court upon the following certificate:

“This case is by agreement of the parties herby reported to the Law Court in the most comprehensive manner, to embrace every question of law and fact which the case hereby reported involves and to submit the whole controversy obtaining for final decision.”

The tendency to report cases to this court which present no questions of law of sufficient importance or doubt to justify the same makes it necessary for us to re-examine the circumstances and again state the rules under which…