Inhabitants of Quincy v. Inhabitants of Braintree
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit for the expense of supporting Hannah White, a pauper, alleged by the plaintiffs to have her legal settlement in Braintree The action was pending in Norfolk, and at the term of [ * 87 ] this Court in that county, * holden on the week preceding the present term, it was submitted to the opinion of the Court on an agreed statement of facts, in substance as follows:— The pauper was, on the 7th of July, 1807, a resident in Quincy, and in need of relief; and on…
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Assumpsit for the expense of supporting Hannah White, a pauper, alleged by the plaintiffs to have her legal settlement in Braintree The action was pending in Norfolk, and at the term of [ * 87 ] this Court in that county, * holden on the week preceding the present term, it was submitted to the opinion of the Court on an agreed statement of facts, in substance as follows:— The pauper was, on the 7th of July, 1807, a resident in Quincy, and in need of relief; and on application to the overseers of the poor for that town, was furnished with the supplies, payment for which is demanded in this…
1Opinion of the Court
*The opinion of the Court ("except the Chief Justice, [*89 ] who did not hear the argument) was afterwards delivered as follows, by
Sedgwick, J.
The only question, which- arises in this cause, is on the sufficiency of the notice given by the overseers of the poor of Quincy to the overseers of the poor of Braintree; no answer having been made to it by the latter. If it be such notice as to comply with the intentions of the statute, there is no question but that the defendants are concluded by it, and that judgment must be rendered against them.
Two objections are made to its sufficiency. 1. That it…
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- Inhabitants of Readfield v. Inhabitants of DresdenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1815
- Inhabitants of Needham v. Inhabitants of NewtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1815
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