In re Barnett
| Decision Date | 08 December 1921 |
| Citation | 133 N.E. 111,240 Mass. 228 |
| Parties | Petition of BARNETT. |
| Court | United States State Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Supreme Court |
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Original petition to the full court by Nathan Barnett for the establishment of a bill of exceptions presented to the judge and disallowed by him in an action against one Loud. Petition dismissed.Nathan Barnett, of Boston, pro se.
This petition was filed on November 3, 1921. Its averments in substance are that at a trial of an action brought by the petitioner against one Loud wherein a verdict was returned for the defendant on each of the counts in the declaration, the petitioner saved certain exceptions and seasonably tendered to the judge, who presided, a bill of exceptions; that the judge refused to allow the same and struck out some of the exceptions as stated therein, and ordered the petitioner to draw up a substitute bill of exceptions omitting the objectionable parts; that the petitioner did draw up such a bill, which was allowed by the judge; that thereafter the petitioner filed a bill of exceptions to the allowance of the substitute bill of exceptions, inserting therein the exceptions stricken out of his original bill and not allowed; that thereafter such bill of exceptions to the allowance of the substitute bill of exceptions was presented to the judge and allowance was refused.
This petition does not conform to the statute. If a judge ‘disallows or fails to sign and return the exceptions or alters any statement therein, and either party is aggrieved thereby, the truth of the exceptions presented may be established before the full court upon petition. * * * G. L. c. 231, § 117, formerly R. L. c. 173, § 110. This language cannot be made plainer by exposition. The present petition is not for the establishment of the exceptions originally filed, but for the establishment of the second bill of exceptions to the action of the judge in striking out a part of that bill. The statute recognizes no such procedure as that here attempted by the petitioner. It always has been held that the statute and rule must be strictly followed. John Henry Co., Petitioner, 222 Mass. 182, 111 N. E. 720. The petition for establishment of exceptions must relate to the exceptions originally filed and disallowed in whole or in part. Moneyweight Scale Co., Petitioner, 225 Mass. 473, 114 N. E. 741;Harrington v. Boston Elevated Railway, 229 Mass. 421, 432, 118 N. E. 880, 2 A. L. R. 1057. The filing of the substitute bill of exceptions by the petitioner was in effect a waiver of matters not included therein.
The petitioner has presented a ‘motion to amend his petition to establish exceptions.’ Such motion is unwarranted in law and cannot be allowed or considered. Freedman v. Lipman, 223 Mass. 471, 112 N. E. 95;Freedman,...
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