Sayward v. Inhabitants of Alfred
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This action was assumpsit for the support of one Jonathan Stone, and was tried on the general issue, before Parker, J., at the sittings in York after the last May term, when a verdict was [ * 245 ] found for the plaintiff, * subject to the opinion of the Court upon the following facts reported by the judge, who sat in the trial.
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This action was assumpsit for the support of one Jonathan Stone, and was tried on the general issue, before Parker, J., at the sittings in York after the last May term, when a verdict was [ * 245 ] found for the plaintiff, * subject to the opinion of the Court upon the following facts reported by the judge, who sat in the trial. The plaintiff is the keeper of the gaol in Alfred, to which St,ont was committed September 20th, 1806, pursuant to an order of .the Court of Common Pleas for the county of York, upon a judgment that he was the putative father of a bastard child. The support of the…
1Opinion of the Court
*188The opinion of the Court was afterwards delivered by
Parsons, C. J.
In this case we are satisfied that the verdict is right. Several of the questions of law arising from the report of the judge have been already settled, unless the cause, for which the pauper in this case was confined in gaol, should distinguish the case from others.
It was decided, in Cargill vs. The Inhabitants of Wiscasset (2), that a pauper in gaol is within the ninth section of the statute of 1793, c. 59., and that a gaol-keeper is within the thirteenth section of the same statute. It was also decided in the case of The…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Cargill v. Inhabitants of WiscassetMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1807
- Doggett v. Inhabitants of DedhamMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1895
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- Cargill v. Inhabitants of WiscassetMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1807
- Rice v. DorrianSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1893
- Frederic J. Crosby, Inc. v. LockhartMassachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · 1937
- Guerrant v. SmithMississippi Supreme Court · 1873
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