Treasurer & Receiver General v. Town of Natick

This action of contract is brought to recover from the defendant for the support of a minor at the Massachusetts Hospital School. The case was heard by the judge, sitting without a jury, upon a statement of agreed facts, and comes before us on the report of the judge without decision.

Joyce Connell, the minor daughter of Wilfred T. Connell and his wife, at the age of four years was admitted to the Massachusetts Hospital School at Canton on October 18, 1934, upon the written application of her mother. Her father was a veteran of World War I and was a resident of the city of Medford at the time…