Dupuis v. Reed

The plaintiff is the sheriff of the county of Bristol. The defendants are the three county commissioners of that county. The ostensible object of the bill is to restrain the defendants from trespassing upon and interfering with the plaintiff’s occupation of a dwelling house belonging to the county and located within the yard of the jail and house of correction at New Bedford. It is apparent, however, that the true object of the litigation is to determine whether the sheriff or the county commissioners have the right to control the house in question.

The sheriff contends that the house is in…