Inhabitants of Deerfield v. Inhabitants of Greenfield
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Action of contract to recover the expenses incurred by the plaintiffs for the support, board, lodging and medical attendance of Abigail Gatlin, a pauper, fallen into distress in Deerfield, and standing in need of immediate comfort and relief, and alleged to have her lawful settlement in Greenfield. Trial in the court of common pleas, before Perkins, J. to whose rulings the plaintiffs alleged exceptions. The whole case appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, C. J.
In recurring to the bill of particulars of the demand, for the recovery of which this action is brought, it is found to consist wholly of the expenses of removing the pauper to the Asylum for the Insane at Brattleborough in Vermont, and of her board and medical attendance at the asylum, on two several occasions. The judge, at the trial, having decided that these expenses, for the removal of a pauper to an asylum out of the State, and for her support there, could not be recovered against the defendant town, though she had her settlement therein, all inquiry upon that point was excluded; of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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