George R. Whitten, Jr., Inc. v. County Commissioners

In this petition for contempt the respondents are the commissioners and the treasurer of Essex County. The petition arises out of a procedural question following a hearing of a bill in equity for a declaratory decree brought pursuant to G. L. c. 231A by Whitten (now the petitioner for contempt) against the commissioners and the *580treasurer. The binding declaration which had been sought was as to the validity of a contract entered into by Whitten with the commissioners. In the equity suit a judge in the Superior Court caused to be entered “Findings of Fact, Rulings of Law, and Order for Decree,”…