Treasurer & Receiver General v. Town of Bourne

This is an action of contract in which the plaintiff seeks to recover for board furnished by the Common*314wealth to one Edwin F. Lumbert at an institution maintained by the Commonwealth for the education and care of crippled and deformed children. The case came before the trial, court upon an-agreed statement of facts and was reported to this court without decision.

From the agreed facts it appears that on October 22,1927, Edwin F. Lumbert, a minor having a settlement in the defendant town, was admitted to the Massachusetts Hospital School; on January 16, 1928, the superintendent of the school…