Roslindale General Hospital, Inc. v. Beckwith Elevator Co.

1. There was no error in the judge’s refusal to allow the force of the auditor’s report (see G. L. c. 221, § 56, as in effect prior to St. 1973, c. 1114, § 80; Cook v. Farm Serv. Stores, Inc. 301 Mass. 564, 565-568 [1938]) to be weakened by permitting questions to be put to the auditor whether certain of the exhibits in evidence before the jury had been introduced in evidence at the hearing before him. Monk v. Beal, 2 Allen 585, 586, 588 (1861). No prejudice resulted from the ruling; the auditor’s testimony as to the manner in which he had marked all the exhibits introduced before him…