E. H. Hall Co. v. U. S. Plastics Corp.

In this action of tort for negligence the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Thereafter the judge ordered the entry of a verdict for the defendant under leave reserved. G. L. c. 231, § 120. The plaintiff duly excepted to that order. The case is before us not only on the plaintiff’s bill of exceptions, but also on the defendant’s exception to the allowance of the plaintiff’s motion to file its bill of exceptions late.

1. We first consider the defendant’s exception. In the case at bar counsel for the plaintiff failed to file a bill of exceptions within twenty days following the entry of…