City of Newburyport v. Creedon
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, under the St. of 1882, c. 113, to recover money paid by the plaintiff for the defendant’s support in the Essex County receptacle at Ipswich.
Read the full summary
Contract, under the St. of 1882, c. 113, to recover money paid by the plaintiff for the defendant’s support in the Essex County receptacle at Ipswich. After the former decision, reported 146 Mass. 134, the case was tried in the Superior Court, without a jury, before LatJirop, J., who reported it for the determination of this court, in substance as follows; The defendant had a settlement in the plaintiff city, and was duly committed to the receptacle as an insane person and in immediate need of relief. The plaintiff paid for the support of the defendant while he was at the receptacle, at the…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, C. J.
It was held, at a former hearing of this case, that the county of Essex might recover, for the support of an insane person in its receptacle for the insane, of the city or town bound by law to maintain such person, under the Pub. Sts. c. 87, § 49, and that the plaintiff could recover of the defendant, under the St. of 1882, c. 113, the amount of expense it had incurred for his support in the receptacle, if it was required by law to pay that amount to the county of Essex. Newburyport v. Creedon, 146 Mass. 134.
The question now raised is whether the plaintiff has proved that it was bound by law…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Green v. GoodrumCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1863
- City of Newburyport v. CreedonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
3Cited by2 opinions
- City of Worcester v. QuinnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
- State v. Alexander Ikey's EstateSupreme Court of Vermont · 1911