Meurling v. Davis

This is an appeal by the respondent from I an order of the Probate Court for Plymouth County allow- I ing a motion by the petitioners to strike from the docket of I that court an entry of a claim of appeal filed by the re- I spondent. The claim of appeal in question was from a de- I cree of the court entered on January 31, 1949, granting leave I *77to the petitioners to adopt a child of the respondent. The twentieth day from the entry of the decree fell on Sunday and the last day for claiming an appeal therefore was Monday, February 21. In a report of material facts the judge states that the…