Gooch v. Association for Relief of Aged Indigent Females
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, "With a count in contract. . The first count alleged that the plaintiff, a widow, in 1863, being over sixty years of age and unable to support herself, applied to the defendants, as required by their rules and regulations, for admission to their Home for Aged Indigent Females, was received as a permanent inmate therein, and was entitled to the rights and privileges thereto appertaining, upon the condition and consideration that she should pay the defendants the sum of…
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Tort, "With a count in contract. . The first count alleged that the plaintiff, a widow, in 1863, being over sixty years of age and unable to support herself, applied to the defendants, as required by their rules and regulations, for admission to their Home for Aged Indigent Females, was received as a permanent inmate therein, and was entitled to the rights and privileges thereto appertaining, upon the condition and consideration that she should pay the defendants the sum of $240, being all the money she then had, and make over to them such property as might afterwards come to her, if she…
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, C. J.
The first count is in tort, alleging that the plaintiff is a widow; that in 1863, being over sixty years of age and unable to support herself, she applied to the defendant cor*566poration, as required by their rules and regulations, for admission to the Home for Aged Indigent Females and was received as a permanent inmate and entitled to the rights and privileges thereto appertaining, upon the condition and consideration that she should make a certain payment of money, and transfer to them the property she then possessed; that in November 1863 a certain room in the house was assigned to her and…
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