Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1912

Cotter v. Nathan & Hurst Co.

Cotter v. Nathan & Hurst Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided January 15, 1912 · Rugg
211 Mass. 31; 97 N.E. 144; 1912 Mass. LEXIS 715

Cotter v. Nathan & Hurst Co.

Opinion of the Court

Rugg, C. J.

It is the settled rule of practice, frequently and ■ uniformly maintained under R. L. c. 173, § 96, as amended by *33St. 1906, c. 342, § 2, and St. 1910, c. 555, § 4, and under similar provisions of earlier statutes, that this court has no jurisdiction to consider an appeal until there has been a judgment. Case v. Ladd, 2 Allen, 130. Bennett v. Clemence, 3 Allen, 431. Commonwealth v. Gloucester, 110 Mass. 491, 497. Marshall v. Merritt, 13 Allen, 274. Kellogg v. Kimball, 122 Mass. 163. O’Connell, petitioner, 174 Mass. 253, 262. See Brooks v. Shaw, 197 Mass. 376.

The only way in which an interlocutory order or decision in an action at law can be brought to the consideration of the full court is by report of the justice presiding at the trial. R. L. c. 173, § 105, as amended by St. 1910, c. 555, § 5.

Appeal dismissed.

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