Cooney v. Commissioner of the Real Property Department

This purports to be an appeal under G. L. c. 213, § ID (as amended through St. 1957, c. 155), from a final judgment of the Superior Court upon a petition for a writ of mandamus. The case was submitted on á statement of agreed facts amounting to a case stated. On August 3, 1973, the trial judge expressly adopted that statement as his findings of fact and made an order for the entry of judgment dismissing the petition. On August 9 the petitioners filed a request for a report of the material facts found by the judge (G. L. c. 214, § 23). The judge responded on October 9 by again adopting the…