Court Opinion

ID: 6427908
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-06-25 12:05:36.464358+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:52:04.384783
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Hammond, J.
It may be assumed that the decree of the Probate Court of September 27,1901, required the petitioners to file specifications within a reasonable time and therefore was subject to appeal. We do not however find it necessary to decide the various questions argued before us, because we think that this appeal should be dismissed for reasons not affecting the merits of the controversy.
At the hearing before us it appeared that since making their appeal the petitioners have filed in the Probate Court specifications in accordance with the decree from which they appealed. This they had a right to do; but, having done so, the order is no longer a grievance, and to pass upon it is to pass upon a moot question. Under these circumstances the appeal to the full court should be dismissed and the case remitted to the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Suffolk, with directions to enter a decree dismissing the appeal from the decree of the Probate Court and to remit the case to that. court for further proceedings.

So ordered.