Tighe v. Maryland Casualty Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Motion, filed in this court on January 12,1914, as follows: “And now comes the defendant in the above entitled action, and moves that the defendants’ bill of exceptions heretofore filed in this case be amended in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 716, Acts of 1913, Section 3, so as to insert in said bill of exceptions immediately preceding the first line on page 14 thereof the following words: 'The foregoing contains all the evidence material to this bill of…
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Motion, filed in this court on January 12,1914, as follows: “And now comes the defendant in the above entitled action, and moves that the defendants’ bill of exceptions heretofore filed in this case be amended in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 716, Acts of 1913, Section 3, so as to insert in said bill of exceptions immediately preceding the first line on page 14 thereof the following words: 'The foregoing contains all the evidence material to this bill of exceptions.’” The motion was signed and presented to this 'court by E. 1. Taylor, for the defendant, and an agreement that the…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is a motion presented to the full court, signed by counsel representing all parties, that a bill of exceptions regularly allowed by a judge of the Superior Court be amended by the addition of a material statement. It is urged that power to grant petitions of this nature is conferred by St. 1913, c. 716, entitled, "An Act to simplify Legal Procedure.” It is provided by § 3 that “The Supreme Judicial Court, upon any appeal, bill of exceptions, report, or other proceeding in the nature of an appeal in any civil action, suit or proceeding, shall have all the powers of amendment of the court…
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