Court Opinion

ID: 6445591
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-25 12:21:11.799021+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:52:45.941682
License: Public Domain

Petition dismissed; and ordered further that the clerk of the Surpeme Judicial Court for the Commonwealth send a copy of this rescript to the clerk of the Superior Court for the county of Suffolk, to be filed in each of the cases of Sauve v. Boston, Worcester & New York Street Railway Company, Wadman v. Boston, Worcester & New York Street Railway Company, Cunningham v. Boston, Worcester & New York Street Railway Company, and Cunningham v. Smith. This is a petition of the defendants in the cases oi Sauve v. Boston, Worcester & New York Street Railway Company, Wadman v. Boston, Worcester & New York Street Railway Company, Cunningham v. Boston, Worcester & New York Street Railway Company, and Cunningham v. Smith, tried in the Superior Court, to establish the truth of exceptions contained in the defendants’ consolidated bill of exceptions which was disallowed by the trial judge on the ground that the statement in the bill that it “contains all the evidence which is material to the issue raised” was not correct and that the bill was not in conformity to the truth. The sole and comprehensive exception of the defendant in each of the cases was to the denial of a motion for a directed verdict in the defendant's favor. The petition was referred to a commissioner who has reported setting forth the material evidence adduced at the trial of the cases, and pointing out that much of certain evidence thus set forth had an important bearing on the issue of negligent maintenance of the defendant street railway company’s bus, upon which the plaintiffs relied, and had been omitted from the consolidated bill of exceptions, and expressly found that the bill did not conform to the truth. An examination of the bill and the report of the commissioner satisfies us that the bill of exceptions was disallowed rightly on that ground by the judge. See Energy Electric Co., petitioner, 262 Mass. 534, 537, and cases cited.