Gould v. City of Lawrence

This is an action to recover the amount of six items for money expended on account of paupers confined in the lunatic hospital in Danvers, whose several settlements were in the defendant city. Under Pub. Sts. c. 87, § 33, the defendant has paid for the support of these paupers at the rate of $3.25 for each person, the price fixed by § 31 of the same chapter. Four items of this account, the second, third, fourth, and sixth, for expenses of pursuit, burial expenses, cash paid on discharge, and clothes on discharge, respectively, are expressly made chargeable to cities and towns in such cases by…