Slate v. DiTocco

This matter is before us on the defendant’s petition to establish report. No requests for rulings were filed either at the completion of trial or at argument on the motion for new trial. Judgment entered for the plaintiff and the defendant filed a “Claim of Report” and a “Draft Report” wherein he alleges to be aggrieved by “certain findings of fact, rulings of law and order of judgment”.

After hearing on the draft report the trial judge entered the following order.

The document submitted as a ‘draft report’ cannot be said in any sense to be in appropriate form for a report. While in the normal…