Adams v. County Commissioners of Hampden

The petitioner, being dissatisfied with the sum allowed to him by the county commissioners as a compensation for his services as keeper of the jail and house of correction, applied, as he had a right to do, to the court of common pleas to determine the amount of such allowance under St. 1859, c. 249, § 3. By that provision of the statute, the superior court, to which the power of the court of common pleas was transferred by St. 1859, c. 196, has entire jurisdiction over the whole subject matter, and full authority to establish the compensation of the petitioner at such sum as to it may seem…