Hack v. Nason
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract. Writ dated May 1,1903. In the Superior Court the case was tried on February 28, 1905, before Lawton, J., whp ordered a verdict for the defendants, and the plaintiff excepted.
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Contract. Writ dated May 1,1903. In the Superior Court the case was tried on February 28, 1905, before Lawton, J., whp ordered a verdict for the defendants, and the plaintiff excepted. The plaintiff did not file his exceptions with the clerk within twenty days after the verdict, and did not give any notice thereof to the adverse party within twenty days after the verdict was rendered; but thereafter, on March 27,1905, the plaintiff filed in court a motion that the time within which his exceptions might be filed should be extended to include April 3, 1905, and with his motion filed an…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
The only question in this case is whether, under the R. L. c. 173, § 106, after the expiration of the twenty days prescribed by statute as the time within which exceptions may be filed and notice of the filing given to the adverse party, the judge has power to allow further time. This has long been *347settled in the negative, by a line of decisions under earlier statutes substantially the same as. this, except that the time allowed was shorter. Commonwealth v. Greenlaw, 119 Mass. 208. Conway v. Callahan, 121 Mass. 165. It has also been decided that the effect of the St. 1895, c. 153, § 1, was…
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