Mayor v. Judge of First District Court

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari brought by the mayor of Medford against the judge of the First District Court of Eastern Middlesex.

The usual function of a writ of certiorari is to enable a party without remedy by appeal, exception or other mode of correcting errors of law committed against his rights, to bring the true record of an inferior tribunal, whose proceedings are judicial or quasi judicial in nature, properly extended, so as to show the principles of the decision, before a superior court for examination as to material mistakes of law apparent on such record. Only errors…