Goff v. Inhabitants of Rehoboth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit to recover forty dollars for the use of 9 house for town meetings, held therein at various times. At the trial in the court of common pleas, before Colby, J. the defendants contended that they had a right so to use the house, without paying for such use.
Read the full summary
Assumpsit to recover forty dollars for the use of 9 house for town meetings, held therein at various times. At the trial in the court of common pleas, before Colby, J. the defendants contended that they had a right so to use the house, without paying for such use. The evidence showed that the plaintiff, in 1841, purchased a meeting-house (the house in question) of the Catholic Congregational Society in Rehohoth, exclusive of the land on which it stood ; and that the house remained on the land, where it had always stood, until after the date of the plaintiff’s last charge against the…
1Opinion of the CourtWilde, J.
This was an action of assumpsit for the use and occupation of a house by the defendants for town meetings. Upon the facts reported, the jury were instructed, for the purposes of the trial, that the defendants had no right to hold their meetings in the said house against the will of the proprietors ; or, if they ever had such a right, it was terminated by the sale to the plaintiff. To these instructions the defendants except; and the main question is, whether the defendants had a right to hold their meetings in the house purchased-by the plaintiff, without his consent, or payment therefor.
The…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Inhabitants of Norton v. Inhabitants of MansfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1819