Wing v. Inhabitants of Chesterfield
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract under the Gen. Sts. c. 70, § 16,* to recover for medical attendance furnished Armenia Olds, a pauper in the defendant town.
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Contract under the Gen. Sts. c. 70, § 16,* to recover for medical attendance furnished Armenia Olds, a pauper in the defendant town. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Lord, J., the following facts appeared: The legal settlement of Armenia Olds was in the town of Monterey; and the overseers of the poor for that town had made a bargain with one Meecham, the father of Armenia, to take care of her and procure and' provide everything which she might need, at a fixed price per week, and they arranged with Ephraim Cole, chairman of the overseers of the poor of the defendant town, to see…
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
1. The plaintiff contends that the presiding judge erred in permitting evidence to be introduced that the neighbors of the pauper, Mrs. Olds (for medical attendance upon whom this action is brought under the Gen. Sts. c. 70, § 16), were in the habit of sending her articles for her comfort, “ as milk and other delicacies such as a sick person would need ” The only suggestion made is that this was immaterial. We cannot see, upon *356these exceptions, that it was not competent on behalf of the defend ant, upon the issue whether the services rendered by the plaintiff were reasonably necessary; but,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Inhabitants of Townsend v. Inhabitants of PepperellMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868
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