116 Mass. 135 | Mass. | 1874
The St. of 1872, c. 199, § 15, (in force when this case was tried,) allowed exceptions and appeals in matter of law from the District Court to this court only “ in cases where a jury trial is had,” and in other cases required the appeal to be to the Superior Court.
The parties having submitted the case to the District Court upon a statement of facts on which the court was to render judg
The anomalous clause, inserted in some of the acts creating district courts, which allowed rulings of a local magistrate of inferior jurisdiction to be brought per saltum to this court for revision, is now repealed, and appropriate provision made for revising such rulings in the future in the Superior Court. St. 1874, e. 336. Exceptions dismissed.