Asker v. Asker

This case reaches us by way of a report (Appeals Court Rule 2:01, as amended, 3 Mass. App. Ct. 805 [1975]) by the Chief Justice of this court, the purpose of which was to cut through a depressing procedural morass which developed after the defendant claimed multiple appeals from orders of a judge of the Probate Court for Plymouth County and those of several single justices of this court who had acted on various petitions for relief from the probate judge’s actions. The report brings before us for appellate review an “interlocutory” decree (see G. L. c. 241, § 10) entered by the probate judge…