Court Opinion

ID: 6455548
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-25 12:40:26.60802+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:53:17.537033
License: Public Domain

The Superior Court judge from whose order judgment the defendant appeals (see Mass. R. Civ. P. 1A, subpar. 7, 365 Mass. 731, [1974]) correctly ruled that the action was not commenced within six months after the defendant had given bond (see G. L. c. 197, § 1, as in effect prior to St. 1969, c. 493, § 1) for the reasons stated in his memorandum and order. See Smith v. Greeley, 291 Mass. 271, 273 (1935); Moriarty v. King, 317 Mass. 210, 214 (1944), and cases cited; Lapp Insulator Co. Inc. v. Boston & Maine R.R. 330 Mass. 205, 213 (1953). We do not consider the other defenses argued in the defendant’s brief, as she failed to assert them before the auditor to whom the case was referred and whose findings of fact were to be final, to preserve them by filing objections to the auditor’s report (Kass v. Todd, 362 Mass. 169, 173 [1972]) or a motion to recommit (Sheppard Envelope Co. v. Arcade Malleable Iron Co. 335 Mass. 180, 184 [1956]), or otherwise to bring them to the attention of the Superior Court (Milton v. Civil Serv. Commn. 365 Mass. 368, 379 [1974]).

Judgment for the plaintiff.