Massachusetts General Hospital v. Fairbanks
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on an account annexed for board and other supplies furnished the defendant at the McLean Asylum for the insane at Somerville, from October 1, 1872, to August 25, 1873. The writ, dated December 19,1876, alleged that the defendant was an insane person, and that Edward A. Caswell was her guardian.
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Contract on an account annexed for board and other supplies furnished the defendant at the McLean Asylum for the insane at Somerville, from October 1, 1872, to August 25, 1873. The writ, dated December 19,1876, alleged that the defendant was an insane person, and that Edward A. Caswell was her guardian. Service was made upon Caswell, who appeared and filed an answer, alleging that before October 1, 1872, the defendant was insane, and has since continued to be so; that, about October 15, 1869, the plaintiff made an agreement with William A. Towne and Isaac H. Wright for the defendant’s board…
1Opinion of the CourtSoule, J.
It appeared at the trial in the Superior Court that when the defendant, an insane person, was received by the *81plaintiff as an inmate of its asylum, she took no active part in che proceedings. She was admitted on the certificate of two physicians that she was insane, to which was appended an application for her admission signed by the keeper of the hotel at which she was boarding, together with an agreement signed by one Towne and one Wright, that they would pay her board as long as she remained there, and all expenses incurred in clothing her and in providing things proper for her health and…
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