Twomey v. Linnehan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Writ of entry, against John S. Linnehan and Bessie Linnehan, his wife, to recover possession of certain premises in Chelsea. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Fessenden, J., the jury returned a verdict for the demandant; and the tenants alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The tenants excepted to the refusal to give certain instructions, to the rulings given, and also to the proceedings by which the verdict first signed was amended in open court and received and recorded. The whole charge is stated, but the exception to the rulings given must be construed to be to those only which were contrary to the requests. At the hearing the exceptions to the refusal to give the requests numbered 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, and 15 were waived.
1. The first, sixth, and seventh requests were upon the theory that an actual wrongful dispossession or exclusion of the demand-ant, or an…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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