Legal Opinion

Standish v. Old Colony Railroad

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided July 2, 1880PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Appeal from an order of the Superior Court for judgment on an award made and returned into that court in pursuance of a submission under the Gen. Sts. c. 147, §§ 1, 2. The record showed that the appellant, on October 27, 1879, entered with the appellee into a submission, under the statute, of the appellant’s claim for damages sustained by reason of personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the appellee on August 29,1879, while the appellant was a…

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Appeal from an order of the Superior Court for judgment on an award made and returned into that court in pursuance of a submission under the Gen. Sts. c. 147, §§ 1, 2. The record showed that the appellant, on October 27, 1879, entered with the appellee into a submission, under the statute, of the appellant’s claim for damages sustained by reason of personal injuries alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the appellee on August 29,1879, while the appellant was a passenger on the railroad of the appellee, to the determination of three arbitrators, the award of whom, or of the majority…

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

The judge’s memorandum of the ground of his ruling is no part of the record, and therefore the remedy of the party aggrieved is not by appeal, but by bill of exceptions. Gen. Sts. c. 114, § 10; c. 115, § 7. Judgment affirmed.

2Cited by7 opinions

  1. Swan v. Justices of Superior CourtMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
  2. Watts v. WattsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1942
  3. Norton v. Musterole Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
  4. Bent v. Erie Telegraph & Telephone Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1887
  5. Regal v. LyonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1912

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