Town of Cohasset v. Town of Norwell

This is an action of contract in which the plaintiff seeks to recover from the defendant a sum of money for poor relief furnished to one Lillian G. Ainslie from March 23, 1928, to the date of the plaintiff’s writ, July 18, 1929. The action was heard by a judge of the Superior Court, without a jury, upon an agreed statement of facts which contains “all the evidence and all the material facts in the case”; and it comes before this court on the defendant’s appeal from an order, for judgment for the plaintiff entered in the Superior Court.

The agreed facts pertinent to the issue presented are as…