Case Name: McALARY and McALARY, p.p.a. v. FIRST NATIONAL STORES, INC.
Court: District Court of Eastern Middlesex
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1941-07-14
Citations: 1 Mass. App. Dec. 55
Docket Number: No. 4042 & 4043
Parties: McALARY and McALARY, p.p.a. v. FIRST NATIONAL STORES, INC.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Appellate Decisions
Volume: 1
Pages: 55–56

Head Matter:
No. 4042 & 4043
Northern Middlesex, ss.
McALARY and McALARY, p.p.a. v. FIRST NATIONAL STORES, INC.
(Ely H. Chayet)
(Cryan 6? Bradley)
From the Third District Court of Eastern Middlesex
Counihan, J.
Argued June 16, 1941
Opinion Filed July 14, 1941

Opinion:
JONES, P. J.
(Wilson, & Henchey, JJ.)—These are defendant's appeals. The actions are stated in the report as "actions of tort" to recover for personal injuries to the plaintiffs from eating spinach sold to them by the defendant and causing their sickness. No requests for rulings of law were filed by either party. The Court found for the plaintiff in each case, without indicating on which counts the findings were based. No requests for reports were filed.
Defendant filed motions for a new trial, which were denied by the Court. It does not appear in the report upon what .grounds the motions for a new trial were based. Therefore, as to these motions, even if any question of the rightfulness of their several dispositions were open to the defendant, they cannot now be questioned under the state of the respective records; the motions are not set forth; they were addressed only to the discretion of the Court, and it was within the power of the Court to over-rule them with no right in the defendant to have the Court's action in this respect reviewed. Brown v. Learmouth, 228 Mass. 417. Neither was there any right of appeal to this court. It is only when a party is aggrieved by a ruling on a matter of law that a party is entitled as of right to a report to the Appellate Division. Commercial Credit Corp. v. Flowers, 282 Mass. 316; Cobb v. Chickatawbut Club, 220 Mass. 146. Neither can we review findings of fact. Loanes v. Gast, 216 Mass. 197.
This Division is designed to review questions of law only shown on a report, and cannot be required to do otherwise. Cleary v. First National Stores, Inc., 291 Mass. 172. The filing of the motion for a new trial added no legal ground for complaint on the part of the defendant. Bankoff v. Coleman Bros., Inc., 302 Mass. 122; G. L. Ter. Ed. c. 231, sec. 108.
The report is dismissed.