Femino v. Andreoli

This is an appeal by the defendants, Henry Andreoli and Joanne Andreoli, claiming to be aggrieved by the trial court’s findings and order in which the court entered judgment for the plaintiff in the amount of $125,000. More specifically, the defendants claim to be aggrieved by the court’s rulings on their Requests for Rulings numbers 4 and 5.

Although the requests numbered 4 and 5 are labelled as requests for rulings of law, they are actually requests for findings of fact. The nature of a request must be determined from its essentials and not from its name. Castano v. Leone, 278 Mass. 429, 431…