Legal Opinion
Hammond v. Inhabitants of Park
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided March 1, 1907PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, C. J.
Each of tbe plaintiffs was suspended from one of tbe public schools of tbe defendant town because of a *30refusal to be vaccinated at a time when smallpox was prevalent in the town. A short time before the suspension the school committee made a regulation as follows: “Voted, to exclude from attendance all unvaccinated children and also all children who do not present a certificate of revaccination as required by the board of health, until such time as this committee may become satisfied that the imminent danger from contagion of smallpox in our town has ceased.”
Our statutes give the school…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Jacobson v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Commonwealth v. PearMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
- Morrison v. City of LawrenceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1904
- Hodgkins v. Inhabitants of RockportMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1870
- Watson v. City of CambridgeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1893
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3Cited by13 opinions
- Leonard v. School Committee of the City of SpringfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1922
- Leonard v. School Committee of AttleboroMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1965
- Barnard v. Inhabitants of ShelburneMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1913
- McDevitt v. School CommitteeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- Nicholls v. Mayor of LynnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
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