Case Name: William F. MURPHY and Susan KAITBENSKI MURPHY vs. J. BOWES CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC.
Court: Massachusetts Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1981-07-03
Citations: 2 Mass. Supp. 585
Docket Number: No. 295
Parties: William F. MURPHY and Susan KAITBENSKI MURPHY vs. J. BOWES CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC.
Judges: William T. Walsh, Presiding Justice
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports Supplement
Volume: 2
Pages: 585–586

Head Matter:
William F. MURPHY and Susan KAITBENSKI MURPHY vs. J. BOWES CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC.
No. 295
District Court Department Appellate Division, Western District Trial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
July 3, 1981
Robert E. George, counsel for plaintiffs
Frank H. Conway, counsel for defendant

Opinion:
DECISION AND ORDER
This cause came on to and was heard in the Appellate Division for the Western District sitting at Springfield upon Petition to Establish Report from the Dudley Division and It is hereby
ORDERED: That the Clerk of the Dudley Division make the following entry in said case on the docket of said Court, namely: The plaintiff's petition to establish report is hereby dismissed.
Date: July 3, 1981
William T. Walsh, Presiding Justice
Mel Greenberg, Justice
Allan McGuane, Justice
Opinion filed herewith.
Robert E. Fein, Clerk
OPINION
WALSH, P.J.
This is a petition to establish report brought pursuant to the provision of Dist./Mun. Cts. R. Civ. P. 64(e). After plaintiffs' complaint was dismissed by the trial judge, a draft report was filed. After a hearing, the judge dismissed the original draft report and, according to the petition, "requested that a redraft of the submitted report be effected by the plaintiff addressing all the issues ."
After a second draft report was filed, the judge disallowed it, setting forth at length and in considerable detail his reasons. This petition was then timely filed. A chronological list of events is set forth in the affidavit accompanying the petition along with the following statement:
"That all of the material facts relating to this case are before the Court in the formofthedraft_ report submitted herewith and the accompanying appendix which provides this Court with all the evidence material to the questions reported and which were before the District Court in the two draft reports."
The petition fails for want of verification that the draft report conformed to the truth. As stated in Cook v. Kozlowski, 351 Mass. 708 (1967), "The petition does not contain an unequivocal allegation, supported by an unequivocal affidavit, that the draft report conforms to the truth." See, Stevens v. United Artists Corporation, 373 Mass. 854 (1977); Lasell v. Director of the Div. of Employment Security, 325 Mass. 23, 25-26 (1949).
The plaintiffs' petition to establish report is hereby dismissed.
William T. Walsh, Presiding Judge
MelL. Greenberg, Justice
Allan McGuane, Justice
This certifies that this is the OPINION of the Appellate Division in this case.
Robert E. Fein, Clerk