Marot v. McGuire

This case was briefed and argued before the Appellate Division on defendants’ petition to establish a report, resulting in a decision and order dismissing the defendants’ draft report. That decision was reported in 1994 Mass. App. Div. 231. Contemporaneously transmitted to this Appellate Division was a document styled “draft report” which neither bore the signatures of the judge purporting to report the matter, nor did the docket sheet state that the judge had signed the report. Since it has now been determined that the judge did in fact sign the report and since the issue was briefed, we now…