Wyness v. Crowley

This is a motion presented to the full court to remand to the register of probate the record in probate appeals with respect to a petition for adoption of a child and also a petition for return of the child to the mother, so that the record shall include a report of the evidence. It is in substance a motion for diminution of the record to the end that it may be corrected and amplified. Doherty’s Case, 222 Mass. 98. A stenographer was appointed to take the testimony before the trial judge pursuant to G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 215, § 18. A decree was entered allowing the adoption and dismissing the…