Phillips v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract by the treasurer of the Commonwealth against the city of Boston for $68.25 for the board of a pauper, alleged to have a settlement in Boston, at the School for the Feeble Minded at Waltham during a period of twenty-one weeks. Writ dated November 9, 1893. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Mason, C. J., without a jury.
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Contract by the treasurer of the Commonwealth against the city of Boston for $68.25 for the board of a pauper, alleged to have a settlement in Boston, at the School for the Feeble Minded at Waltham during a period of twenty-one weeks. Writ dated November 9, 1893. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Mason, C. J., without a jury. The judge made the special finding quoted by the court, and found for the plaintiff in the sum of |105.64. The defendant alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
This is an action brought by the treasurer and receiver general of the Commonwealth to recover for the care and support as a pauper of Henrietta M. Melvin, a person of unsound mind and never placed under guardianship. She was born in Boston in 1860, where her father, William Melvin, at that time had a settlement, and lived with him until his death in 1880; and then with his widow, her step-mother, until 1882, when she left Boston and went to Quincy, and there lived continuously until her commitment in June, 1893, to the “Massachusetts School for the Feeble Minded.” She did not during this…
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