Churchill v. Palmer
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on a warranty in the sale of a lot of kid gloves. Trial in the Superior Court before Rockwell, J., who made the following report: “ The pleadings and prior record of the case referred to. Defendants A. T. Hall, F. A. Hall and J. F. Macomber alone defended at this trial.
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Contract on a warranty in the sale of a lot of kid gloves. Trial in the Superior Court before Rockwell, J., who made the following report: “ The pleadings and prior record of the case referred to. Defendants A. T. Hall, F. A. Hall and J. F. Macomber alone defended at this trial. “ The plaintiffs introduced evidence, documentary and oral; and this and the examination, and cross-examination of* witnesses, together with the proof offered by the plaintiffs and rejected by the court, and their exceptions thereto, and the evidence introduced by the defendants in the course of the plaintiffs’ case,…
1Opinion of the Court
The Court then suggested that the case should stand over for a day, and that the counsel should see if they could agree upon an abridgment of the testimony on the coming in of the court.
On the next day the counsel for the plaintiffs stated that he had no further suggestions to offer.
Gray, C. J.
The authority given by statute to the Superior Court to make reports to this court extends only to questions of law. A report, like a bill of exceptions, should be so framed by the presiding judge, or by the counsel with his approval, as to state the nature of the case, and the questions of law intended…
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