Barton v. Automobile Ins. Co. of Hartford

WILSON, Circuit Judge.

This case involves so many irregularities of procedure that, in order properly to dispose of the ease, it will be necessary to outline the proceedings. It comes here on a petition for an appeal allowed by this court after a denial of the petition by the District Court of Massachusetts, and on what purports to be a record of 'the proceedings below, but which is merely a chronological recital of what transpired in the District Court, unauthentieated by the signature of the trial court.

The plaintiff seeks to recover under a policy .of insurance issued by the appellee in…