Boston Seaman's Friend Society, Inc. v. Attorney General

More than thirty days after the entry of judgment in the Probate and Family Court for the County of Dukes County, but within the sixty-day appeal period set forth in Mass. R. A. P. 4, 365 Mass. 846 (1974), the Boston Seaman’s Friend Society, Inc. (Society), filed a notice of appeal. A panel of the Appeals Court determined “that the question whether the appeal period applicable to the present case is the thirty-day period found in G. L. c. 215, § 9 (as appearing in St. 1975, c. 400, § 57), or the sixty-day period found in the first sentence of Mass. R.A.P. 4” was one of unusual significance…