Morse v. County of Norfolk
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, to recover for professional services. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after a pro forma finding for the defendant by Fessenden, J., to this court, on appeal, upon agreed facts, the nature of which appears in the opinion. If the plaintiff was entitled to recover, judgment was to be entered for the amount of his account, with interest; otherwise, judgment for the defendant.,
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
In enlarging the court house in Dedham, the county commissioners did not act as agents of the county, but as officers designated by statute for the performance of that service. In Pub. Sts. c. 22, § 5, it is provided that each county except Suffolk shall provide suitable court houses for the use of the county; and in § 20, that county commissioners shall have authority to provide for erecting and repairing court houses within and for the use of their county. Though not officers of *556the Commonwealth in such a sense as to be impeachable under the Constitution, (Opinion of the Justices, 167 Mass.…
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