Treasurer & Receiver General v. City of Boston

This is an action of contract to recover charges for the support of certain inmates of State institutions upon the ground that, as such inmates each had a legal settlement in Boston, that city, under the provisions of G. L. c. Ill, § 66, is hable to the plaintiff as State Treasurer for the amount of such charges. The declaration contained twenty-three counts, each relating to a claim against the defendant for the support of an inmate. The case is before this court on a reservation and report made by a judge of the Superior Court upon an agreed statement of facts. The questions of law to be…