County Commissioners of Bristol v. Judges of Probate of Bristol

This bill for a binding declaration under G. L. c. 231A presents what is described as a controversy between the plaintiff county commissioners and the defendants, who are the two judges of probate of the county of Bristol, as to their relative powers with respect to the use of a court room in the “Superior Court building” in New Bedford. A single justice has reported the case without decision. The facts appear in a stipulation as to all the material facts amounting to a case stated.

For many years prior to 1950 the Probate Court for the county of Bristol when sitting in New Bedford used a…