Inhabitants of Hampshire v. Inhabitants of Franklin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This action was assumpsit, for money expended by the plaintiffs for the use of the defendants; and it was referred to the decision of the Court, upon the following case stated by the parties.
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This action was assumpsit, for money expended by the plaintiffs for the use of the defendants; and it was referred to the decision of the Court, upon the following case stated by the parties. By an act entitled “ An act to divide the county of Hampshire, and to constitute the northerly part thereof into a county by the name of the county of Franklin,” passed on the 24th of June, 1811, the county of Franklin was created, with all the powers, rights and immunities of other counties of this commonwealth; the said act to take effect from and after the second day of December then next. In and by…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
Three several questions are presented to us m this case, arising out of the several statutes, which have been cited; two of which come regularly before us in this action; and the third, respecting the claim by Hampshire against Hampden for reimbursement, arising incidentally, no opinion which we shall give can be enforced by judgment, as there is no action between those two counties before us.
The inhabitants of the county of Hampshire are the plaintiffs in the suit, claiming one third of the expenses of grand and traverse juries, for all the terms of the Supreme Judicial Court, from the time…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Barnard v. WardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1812
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