Catheron v. County of Suffolk
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for one month’s salary alleged ’"to be due to the plaintiff as probation officer of the Superior Court for Suffolk County for the month of January, 1917. Writ dated February 2, 1917. In the Superior Court the action was heard by Hardy, J., without a jury, upon an agreed statement of facts, among which were the following: On April 8, 1899, for the first time a committee on probation matters was appointed by the justices of the Superior Court.
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Contract for one month’s salary alleged ’"to be due to the plaintiff as probation officer of the Superior Court for Suffolk County for the month of January, 1917. Writ dated February 2, 1917. In the Superior Court the action was heard by Hardy, J., without a jury, upon an agreed statement of facts, among which were the following: On April 8, 1899, for the first time a committee on probation matters was appointed by the justices of the Superior Court. On June 6, 1903, it was voted by the justices “That the selection and appointment of probation officers, the determination of their…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
The validity of the appointment of the plaintiff as probation officer of the Superior Court for Suffolk County is the issue here presented. The facts are that there is a probation committee of the justices of the Superior Court, consisting of the chief justice and three associate judges. That committee voted on December 16, 1916, that the plaintiff be appointed probation officer with defined duties, beginning of term, and salary. A paper containing a copy of the vote was forthwith passed over to another judge of the Superior Court then holding the session of the Court for the transaction of…
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