Treasurer & Receiver General v. City of Boston

In this action of contract the plaintiff seeks to recover $375.43 from the defendant for the care and maintenance furnished by the Commonwealth to one Mary Agnes "Kilduff, a minor, at the Tewksbury State Hospital and Infirmary, hereinafter called the infirmary. The case was heard on a statement of agreed facts and comes to this court on a report after a finding for the defendant.

The material facts are these: Mary Agnes Kilduff, a minor, was admitted to the infirmary on December 12, 1941, “on permit issued by the department of public welfare as provided in G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 122, § 7.” Her…