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150 Mass. 56

Gray v. Gray

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided October 23, 1889

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1889-10-23

Holmes, J., affirmed the decree, and an appeal was taken to the full court. Subsequently the appellant waived his appeal, and the appellee filed a motion to the full court that the decree appealed from be affirmed.

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1943

4 state decisions

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Decided 1889-10-23

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By the Court.

¶1The Pub. Sts. c. 151, § 13, provide that an appeal from a single justice of this court in equity “ shall thereupon be pending before the full court, who shall hear and determine the same.” Appeals from the Probate Court to the Supreme Judicial Court are to be entered on the same docket, and are to have the same rights as to hearing and determination, as cases in equity. Pub. Sts. c. 156, § 11. An appeal from a single justice of this court upon a decree rendered in a probate matter must have the same effect as an appeal from a decree in a suit in equity, and by the force of the appeal is to be treated according to the statute as pending in the full court.

¶2The St. of 1888, c. 94, altering the Pub. Sts. c. 150, § 16, so as to provide that, upon the non-entry of an appeal or of exceptions in this court, application for an affirmance of judgment, etc., may be made to the court allowing the exceptions or from which the appeal was taken, does not affect appeals of this character.

¶3The appellant having waived his appeal from the decree of the single justice, that decree will be, affirmed here, and the case remanded to the Probate Court. Decree affirmed.

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