Case Name: Epifanio F. Procida vs. Virginia Ianiantuani
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1936-10-27
Citations: 295 Mass. 479
Docket Number: 
Parties: Epifanio F. Procida vs. Virginia Ianiantuani.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 295
Pages: 479–480

Head Matter:
Epifanio F. Procida vs. Virginia Ianiantuani.
Plymouth.
October 9, 1936.
October 27, 1936.
Present: Rugg, C.J., Crosby, Pierce, & Lummus, JJ.
J. P. Barlow, for the plaintiff in error, submitted a brief.
No argument nor brief for the defendant in error.

Opinion:
By the Court.
This is a petition for a writ of error. The defendant in error filed a general demurrer. The single justice sustained that demurrer and ordered the judgment affirmed. Rule 30 of the Supreme Judicial Court for the Regulation of Practice at Common Law (1926), 252 Mass. 598. The plaintiff in error undertook to appeal to the full court. It has long been established that appeal does not lie from a decision of a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court in a proceeding at law. That procedure is confined to appropriate cases in the Superior and some other courts. The proper method of seeking review by the full court of a decision or ruling by a single justice in an action at law, if not reported by him, is by a bill of exceptions. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 231, § 96. Channell v. Judge of Central District Court of Northern Essex, 213 Mass. 78, and cases cited. Cote v. Judge of Second District Court of Eastern Middlesex, 225 Mass. 123. St. Nicholas Russian Benefit Society, Inc. v. Yaselko, 279 Mass. 81, 83. Sheehan v. Judge of the District Court of Springfield, 280 Mass. 467.
Appeal dismissed.