City of Northampton v. Inhabitants of Plainfield
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, to recover the expenses incurred by the plaintiff for the support in the Northampton lunatic asylum of a pauper, whose settlement was alleged to be in the defendant town.
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Contract, to recover the expenses incurred by the plaintiff for the support in the Northampton lunatic asylum of a pauper, whose settlement was alleged to be in the defendant town. Writ dated June 21, 1894. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Hopkins, J., who found that the person committed to the hospital was a lunatic pauper; that she was thus committed on October 11, 1892; that she then resided in the plaintiff city; that she had been confined in the hospital continuously from that time to the time of the trial; that her legal settlement was during all that time in the…
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
The question in this case is whether the plaintiff is entitled to recover the full amount expended by it for the support of the lunatic pauper from the date of her commitment to the Northampton lunatic hospital on October 11, 1892, to the date of the writ, June 21, 1894, or whether it is entitled to recover only for the expenses incurred within three months next before the notice given by the plaintiff to the defendant, which was on November 18, 1892.
By the Pub. Sts. c. 87, § 34, “ Every city or town paying expenses for the support or removal of a lunatic committed to either hospital shall…
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