Soper v. Wheeler
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed on April 30, 1921, and afterwards amended by substitution, seeking a writ of mandamus addressed to the overseers of the poor in the city of Gloucester, the city of Gloucester and the Attorney General of the Commonwealth, commanding the overseers of the poor and all other parties who might have an interest therein to grant or cause to be granted such aid as should enable the petitioner to bring up her children properly in her own home.
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Petition, filed on April 30, 1921, and afterwards amended by substitution, seeking a writ of mandamus addressed to the overseers of the poor in the city of Gloucester, the city of Gloucester and the Attorney General of the Commonwealth, commanding the overseers of the poor and all other parties who might have an interest therein to grant or cause to be granted such aid as should enable the petitioner to bring up her children properly in her own home. The case came on to be heard before Braley, J., who reserved it upon the substitute petition, answer thereto and agreed statement of facts,…
1Opinion of the CourtCarroll, J.
This is a petition for mandamus by Teresa C.. Soper, a resident of Gloucester with two dependent children under the age of fourteen, who has resided in this Commonwealth more than three years and whose husband has deserted her, against the overseers of the poor of the city of Gloucester, the city of . Gloucester and the Attorney General; praying that the overseers of the poor may be directed to grant her such aid under the G. L.. c. 118, as will enable her to bring up her children properly in her own home. The petition recites that her husband deserted her on December 23, 1920; that a warrant…
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