City of Worcester v. Town of Charlton

In this action of contract the single question of law presented by the record is whether the liability of the defendant for hospital care furnished to a minor having a settlement in the defendant town was limited to the rate established by G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 7, § 30K, inserted by St. 1953, c. 636, § 2. In the Superior Court the case was submitted upon a statement of agreed facts to a judge who found for the plaintiff in the sum of $4,794.20 together with interest in the sum of $164.12.

The patient, a girl sixteen years of age and residing with her parents in the defendant town and having a…