Cutts v. Commonwealth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a writ of error brought in the county of York, to reverse a judgment rendered there in the Supreme Judicial Court, October term, 1805, upon an information or inquest of office filed by the Solicitor-General, in behalf of the commonwealth, against the now plaintiff in error.
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This was a writ of error brought in the county of York, to reverse a judgment rendered there in the Supreme Judicial Court, October term, 1805, upon an information or inquest of office filed by the Solicitor-General, in behalf of the commonwealth, against the now plaintiff in error. The Chief Justice and Judge Parker having been of counsel in the cause, it was continued nisi at the last term in York, to be argued and determined here. * The original information, which was filed in Suffolk,- [ * 285 ] at the March term of this Court, A. D. 1804, sets forth, •• That there is in the town of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was thus delivered by
Sedgwick, J.
This case is brought before the Court by a writ of error, which complains of a judgment of the Court founded on a suit in favor of the commonwealth, against the plaintiff in error, instituted by the Solicitor-General, by the order of a special resolve of the legislature, in pursuance of the act passed June 18, 1791, “ directing the manner in which inquests of office shall be taken to revest real estate in the commonwealth, or to entitle the commonwealth thereto.”
This writ is grounded on the second section of the statute, which enacts,…
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