Case Name: Samuel Jones vs. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority & another
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1999-07-29
Citations: 430 Mass. 1001
Docket Number: 
Parties: Samuel Jones vs. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority & another.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 430
Pages: 1001–1002

Head Matter:
Samuel Jones vs. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority & another.
July 29, 1999.
Supreme Judicial Court,
Superintendence of inferior courts.
The case was submitted on briefs.
Mary M. Logalbo, William A. Mitchell, Jr., & Jonathan P. Feltner for Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.
Samuel Jones, pro se.
City of Boston.

Opinion:
"The extraordinary remedy provided by c. 211, § 3, should be invoked only when appellate review is otherwise unavailable." Hahn v. Planning Bd. of Stoughton, 403 Mass. 332, 335 (1988). The petitioner could have sought and obtained appellate review of the judges' actions. Moreover, the Superior Court docket entries reflect his filing of notices of appeal. As a result, we allow the motion of the MBTA to join in the motion of the city to dismiss the petitioner's appeal from the judgment of the single justice, and we allow that motion to dismiss.
So ordered.