Lash v. Ames
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, for the conversion of a lot of second hand building materials. Writ dated May 14, 1889. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Dunbar, J., who found for the defendant; and reported the case for the determination of this court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The record in this case is unnecessarily voluminous, consisting as it does of an agreed statement of facts, and forty pages of evidence, with the questions and answers set forth *488at length, together with certain rulings requested, and those given, the general finding for the defendant, and a brief report of the case to this court. Such a method of presenting a case to us for the determination of the questions of law involved is to be condemned. See Roskee v. Mount Tom Sulphite Pulp Co. 169 Mass. 528.
The general facts relating to these questions may be briefly stated thus. In the early part of…
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