Case ID: mass-app-dec_37/html/0121-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Connolly, J.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Northern District
    
    No. 6361 and No. 6362
    PARSONS, FRIEDMANN & CENTRAL, INC. v. ARNOLD S. DANIELS, ET ALS
    
      
      Present: Brooks, P.J. and Connolly, J.
    Case tried to Yesley, J. in the District Court of Newton
    No. 13316 and No. 13781
   Connolly, J.

These two cases are actions on promissory notes that were tried together m the District Court. The parties are the same in each case.

Typed on the reverse side of each note are the words, “Waiving demand, notice and protest”; then, in the following order were the signatures, “Henry K. Shor” and “Arnold S. Daniels ’ the latter being the appellant in the proceedings before this Division.

As the defendant points out in his brief, the sole issue in these cases is whether from the evidence offered at the trial, there was sufficient evidence for the trial judge to find as. a fact that the defendant Daniels, in signing as an endorser, adopted the waiver appearing not over his endorsement, but over that of a prior endorser.

Although a report from the District Court to the Appellate Division is the report of the trial judge, it is still the responsibility of the aggrieved party to see to it that the report is complete enough to enable the Appellate Division to determine whether there has been prejudicial error. Vengrow v. Grimes, 274 Mass. 278; Posell v. Herscovitz, 237 Mass. 513 at 516-517.

Morris A. Greekbaum of Boston for the plaintiff

Alaet S. Barkenof Boston for the defendant

Because the reports of these cases do not state that they contain all the material evidence, they are fatally defective. Irving v. Bonjorno, 327 Mass. 516.

Since the reports in these cases do not demonstrate prejudicial error, they are dismissed.