Legal Opinion
Town of Lakeville v. City of Cambridge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 26, 1940PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtField, C.J.
This is an action of contract brought by the town of Lakeville to recover from the city of Cambridge amounts spent by the plaintiff in furnishing immediate comfort and relief to one Earley, his wife and her four children by a former husband, between September 14, 1933, and September 6, 1935, on the ground that said Earley then had a settlement in the defendant city. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 117, § 14. It is conceded that the settlements of the wife of said Earley and of her children were the same as his settlement.
The case was tried before an auditor whose findings of fact were not to be final.…
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3Cited by13 opinions
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