Davis, Malm & D'Agostine v. Lahnston

Until 2008, Mass.R.Civ.P. 64A required a party in a civil case tried in the Boston Municipal Court and District Court departments, to file a special type of request for a ruling of law known as a “warrants” request in order to preserve for appellate review a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence offered by the party with the burden of proof.1 These were *255requests that the evidence “warrants a finding for the requesting party” or “does not warrant a finding for the opposing party.”2 Under current practice, the sufficiency of the evidence in a jury-waived trial conducted in the Boston…