City of Newton v. Devlin

This is an action upon a bond. The case was referred to an auditor, and comes before us upon the report of a single justice, at the hearing before whom the parties agreed that all the facts found by the auditor were true, though neither party agreed that all the rulings of the auditor, as to the construction of different parts of the contracts, or upon the facts found by him, were legal and correct. The auditor’s report states the whole case in detail, his findings on a great variety of questions, and the accounts, containing a great many items; but the questions upon which we are now called…