City of Boston v. Inhabitants of Acton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, for expenses incurred in the care of a pauper alleged by the plaintiff to have had a settlement in the defendant town. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant to this court, on appeal, upon agreed facts, in substance as follows.
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Contract, for expenses incurred in the care of a pauper alleged by the plaintiff to have had a settlement in the defendant town. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant to this court, on appeal, upon agreed facts, in substance as follows. The plaintiff for a period of one hundred and two days, beginning with June 28, 1893, furnished board and care in its hospital to a certain woman under the name of Mary Richardson, she being in immediate need of relief and unable to provide for herself. On July 7 of that year the plaintiff’s overseers of the poor…
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
This case turns on the question of the sufficiency of the notice sent by the overseers of the poor of the plaintiff to (he overseers of the poor of the defendant. The *581name of the person to whom aid was furnished was stated to be Mary. Richardson, whereas her name then and for some time afterwards was Mary E. Powers. There is nothing in the agreed facts to show that she was known in the defendant town as Mary Richardson, or that the overseers of the poor had any seasonable knowledge who was meant by the notice sent. There was therefore no occasion for them to take any action in the matter.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Inhabitants of Carver v. City of TauntonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1890
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