Brooks v. Twitchell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court December 13, 1900, to enjoin the enforcement of a judgment in an action at law. In the Superior Court Braley J. overruled a demurrer to the bill, and made the final decree which is stated in the next to the last paragraph of the opinion. The defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
Two appeals are before us, one from an interlocutory decree overruling a demurrer to the bill, and one from a final decree for the plaintiff entered after a hearing upon the merits. As there is no report of the facts and no statement of the evidence the questions are whether the demurrer was over*444ruled rightly and, if so, whether the final decree could be entered upon the bill as it was framed. Langmaid v. Reed, 159 Mass. 409, 411. Commonwealth v. Suffolk Trust Co. 161 Mass. 550.
1. The first ground of demurrer is for want of equity and raises the question whether a court of equity has…
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