Carr v. Inhabitants of Dighton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Three actions of tort against the town of Dighton by three minors by their next friend for alleged unlawful exclusion from the public schools of that town. Writs dated November 18, 1914. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before White, J. The certificate of Dr. F. A. Shurtleff, deceased, described in the opinion, was admitted in evidence by the judge, subject to the defendant’s exception. The other evidence also is described in the opinion.
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Three actions of tort against the town of Dighton by three minors by their next friend for alleged unlawful exclusion from the public schools of that town. Writs dated November 18, 1914. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before White, J. The certificate of Dr. F. A. Shurtleff, deceased, described in the opinion, was admitted in evidence by the judge, subject to the defendant’s exception. The other evidence also is described in the opinion. At the close of the evidence the defendant asked the judge to make in each of the cases the following rulings: “1. There is no sufficient…
1Opinion of the CourtDe Courcy, J.
On December 2, 1908, the plaintiffs and two other children of Charles E. Carr were excluded from a public school in the defendant town, of which they were pupils. The father, by letter dated December 9, applied to the school committee for a statement in writing of the reasons for the exclusion, in accordance with R. L. c. 44, § 7. The superintendent, on behalf of the committee, wrote in reply: “Dr. Joseph B. Sayles, medical inspector of the public schools of this town, has formally reported that he sent your children home from the Broad Cove School on account of.having head lice and that the…
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