Inhabitants of Medford v. Learned
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit for 500 dollars laid out and expended by the plaintiffs for the use of the defendant, in the support and maintenance of himself, his wife and children, from January, 1812, to September 18th, 1818, the date of the writ. The action was submitted to the decision of the Court, upon the following facts agreed by the parties.
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Assumpsit for 500 dollars laid out and expended by the plaintiffs for the use of the defendant, in the support and maintenance of himself, his wife and children, from January, 1812, to September 18th, 1818, the date of the writ. The action was submitted to the decision of the Court, upon the following facts agreed by the parties. The plaintiffs had expended the sum of 500 dollars for the support of the defendant, his wife and one child, within six years next before the date of the writ; of which sum 88 dollars had been expended since the 24th of February, 1818, and 47 dollars had been…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
The plaintiffs predicate their action upon the fifth section of the statute of 1817, c. 186, whidh passed on the 24th of February, 1818; the seventh section of which provides, that “ the act shall take effect and be in force on arid after the first day of June then next.”
*183The money expended by the plaintiffs, which is claimed to be recovered in this action, is for supplies advanced to the defendant and his family, being paupers, prior to the said first day of June, except the sum of 47 dollars, which has been expended since that day»
It is objected to the recovery, that, as by law, no debt or…
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