Platts v. Wronski

The plaintiff has appealed from a “judgment” ordering a commissioner to make a partition by division of a parcel of land of about 160 acres located in Sterling. The following summary of the pertinent events leading up to this appeal has been taken from the appendix and from the original papers, which we ordered brought before us. Mass.R.A.P. 18, as amended through 378 Mass. 944 (1979).

The defendant and his three brothers were the owners of the 160 acre parcel and on November 10, 1978, the three brothers filed a petition for partition of the land in the Probate Court. A citation was issued on…