Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court October 15, 1869 (Marshall v. Merritt)

Chapman, C. J.

The power of the courts to order causes to be brought forward on the docket from a former term, where no continuance has been entered, is well established. Gile v. Moore, 2 Pick. 386, and 3 Pick. 194, nom. Commonwealth v. Moore, is an example. Browning v. Bancroft, 8 Met. 278, and 5 Met. 88, was brought forward in the court of common pleas from June term 1842 to September term 1843.