Case ID: mass-app-dec_46/html/0013-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Northern District
    
    No. 7269
    FRED C. CHURCH & CO. v. JAMES PACY, JR.
    Argued: Mar. 25, 1970
    Decided: Apr. 29, 1970
    
      Present: Brooks, P.J., Connolly, J.
    
      No. 1728 of 1968.
    Case tried to Cowdrey, J., in the District Court of Lowell
    Wallace H. Levy for the Plaintiff.
    Albert W. Wunderly for the Defendant.
   Per Curiam:

This appeal is from a ruling of an interlocutory matter (a motion to dismiss) in a case not ripe for judgment.

The report does not clearly appear to be the report of the trial judge. Patrick v. Mikolaitis, 22 Mass. App. Dec. 167; Pokrant v. Horrigan, 20 Mass. App. Dec. 1; Krock v. Consolidated Mines and Power Co., 286 Mass. 177.

The motion to dismiss should be treated as a demurrer. Carmel Credit Union v. Lesser, 344 Mass. 623.

As a demurrer, its grounds would be that the matters contained in the declaration are insufficient in law to enable the plaintiff to maintain its action. GLL. c. 231, § 18.

The case is remanded without prejudice to the District Court of Lowell for a hearing on the demurrer and, if necessary, a trial on the merits.