Channell v. Judge of Central District Court of Northern Essex

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus. At the hearing before the single justice,* the petition was dismissed. From this decree the petitioner has appealed. The statute does not allow an appeal from a decision of a justice of this court in. a proceeding at law, that procedure being confined to decisions of the Superior Court. R. L. c. 173, § 96 as amended by St. 1906, c. 342, § 2, and St. 1910, c. 555, § 4. Cowley v. Train, 124 Mass. 226. Attorney General v. Oliver, 175 Mass. 163. Brockton v. County Commissioners, 183 Mass. 42. Norton v. Lilley, 210 Mass. 214, 218. The only way to bring…