Cobb v. Hale
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition by the defendant to vacate a judgment. Upon hearing in the Superior Court, before Mason, C. J., the petition was dismissed; and the defendant appealed to this court, both from the order dismissing the petition, and from the entry of judgment therein. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
We infer from the papers before us that the action was originally brought in the Second District Court of Plymouth, where judgment was rendered for the plaintiff, from which the defendant appealed to the Superior Court, and that on March 7, 1898, in the Superior Court this judgment was affirmed on complaint made by the defendant that the appeal had not been properly entered, and that the proper papers had not been filed. Pub. Sts. c. 155, § 34; c. 154, § 39. St. 1893, c. 386, § 30. The defendant on March 18, 1898, filed in the Superior Court a petition asking that the judgment be vacated,…
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