H. K. Webster Co. v. Mann

This action of contract was brought in a district court. On the return day of the writ the defendant filed a claim of jury trial with the clerk of the District Court and deposited with him $3 for the entry of the cause in the Superior Court. He also filed an answer. About three weeks later the defendant filed a motion asking “to be permitted to file an appeal bond” and to make late entry in the Superior Court, and averring among other matters that he “inadvertently did not file bond required by statute” but had then perfected the bond and proffered it to *383the court. No bond accompanied this…