KIRK, J.
This is an appeal by the defendants from a final decree in the Superior Court annulling the decision of the board of appeals (the board) and ordering the issuance of a building permit to the plaintiffs. The case was referred to a master.
Although we recognize the inherent power of a judge of the Superior Court to refer a suit in equity to a master, Parker v. Nickerson, 137 Mass. 487, 491, nevertheless, we think that, except in unusual...
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