Case Name: Ira B. GORDON vs. PANTOS CANVAS CORPORATION
Court: Massachusetts Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1983-02-10
Citations: 4 Mass. Supp. 259
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ira B. GORDON vs. PANTOS CANVAS CORPORATION
Judges: Elliot T. Cowdrey
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports Supplement
Volume: 4
Pages: 259–260

Head Matter:
Ira B. GORDON vs. PANTOS CANVAS CORPORATION
No. ---
U.S. District Court Appellate Division/Northem District Trial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
February 10, 1983
Arthur Finn, Esq., Counsel for Appellant.
Charles E. Blumsack, Counsel for Ap-pellee.

Opinion:
OPINION
Forte, J.
This appeal is before the Appellate Division on a report from the Second Eastern Middlesex Division.
At the close of the evidence at trial, the defendant filed requests for rulings which the court denied in part. On April 16, 1981 the court's findings were filed and on April 21, judgment was entered in the docket. On April 30, 1981 the defendant timely filed a claim of report and a motion for a new trial. The denial of the motion for a new'trial was docketed on May 15, 1981. On May 26, 1981 the defendant's draft report was filed.
Dist./Mun. R. Civ. P. 64(c)(ii) requires draft reports to be filed within ten (10) days after entry of judgment. Wing v. Liziewski, 59 Mass. App. Dec. 30 (1976). However, the filing of a motion for a new trial tolls the time for filing of the draft report. Dist./Mun. R. Div. P. 64(c)(iii) and the full time (ten days) for filing draft reports "shall commence to run and shall be computed from the entry of any of the following orders made upon a timely motion under such rules: . (3) denying a motion for a pew trial under Rule 59." Rule 64(c)(iii).
When the denial of the motion for a new trial was docketed on May 15, 1981, the ten days to file a draft report began to toll. The draft report was not filed until the eleventh day thereafter and no motion was filed or allowed to extend the time for filing.
The draft report not having been filed timely is to be dismissed. Locke v. Slater, 387 Mass. 682 (1982), Wing v. Liziewski, supra.
Report dismissed,
Elliot T. Cowdrey
John P. Forte
James B. Tiffany
This Certifies that this is the opinion of the Appellate Division in this cause,
Suzanne Hurley Clerk, Appellate Division