Cushman v. Noe

It has been repeatedly pointed out that the pref*501erable equity practice is to bring questions of law to this court by appeal from final decrees and not by exceptions. McCusker v. Geiger, 195 Mass. 46, 52. Welsh v. Briggs, 204 Mass. 540, 549. Assuming in favor of the defendants that their requests for rulings were rightly presented and all their exceptions are open and considering the record on its merits, no error of law is disclosed.

This is a suit in equity by administrators of the estate of Matilda M. Chesbrough seeking to set aside a sale of personal property in form executed by her during…