Stoneham Five Cents Savings Bank v. Johnson

The adoption by the trial judge of the practice, already disapproved by this court, of granting or denying by reference numbered requests for findings of fact, which have to be compared and fitted with each other and with other findings made in narrative form, has unnecessarily increased the difficulty of discovering and stating the facts. Manfredi v. O’Brien, 282 Mass. 458, 460. Zarthar v. Saliba, 282 Mass. 558, 560. Peabody Gas & Oil Co. v. Standard Oil Co. of New York, 284 Mass. 87, 92.

On April 11, 1929, one David H. Pingree borrowed $6,000 from the plaintiff bank, and gave therefor his…