Case Name: Delphis Reed & another vs. William M. Cape & another
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1938-03-29
Citations: 300 Mass. 101
Docket Number: 
Parties: Delphis Reed & another vs. William M. Cape & another.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 300
Pages: 101–102

Head Matter:
Delphis Reed & another vs. William M. Cape & another.
Worcester.
March 9, 1938.
March 29, 1938.
Present: Rugg, C.J., Field, Ltjmmus, Dolan, & Cox, JJ.
E. A. Brodeur, for the plaintiffs.
No argument nor brief for the defendants.

Opinion:
Cox, J.
The burden of the plaintiffs' bill of complaint is that the defendants obstructed a culvert through which the plaintiffs have a right of drainage and that, in consequence of the obstruction, they have suffered damage from the flooding of their premises. But the master, to whom the suit was referred, found adversely to the plaintiffs' claim that the defendants caused the obstruction. The evidence is not reported and the master's findings must be accepted as true, inasmuch as from the report itself they are not plainly wrong. Martin v. Barnes, 214 Mass. 29.
The plaintiffs appealed from the interlocutory decree, which overruled their exceptions to and confirmed the master's report, and from the final decree dismissing the bill. Both decrees were entered properly. The exceptions to the report are based upon findings of the master or upon his failure to find certain facts, and present no questions of law. Cook v. Scheffreen, 215 Mass. 444. Colburn v. Hodgdon, 241 Mass. 183, 190. Cumberland Corp. v. Metropoulos, 241 Mass. 491.
Interlocutory decree affirmed.
Final decree affirmed with costs.