Case ID: mass_11/html/0029-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

William Smith and Others, Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Boston, Complainants, versus Isaac Hubbard.
    From an order of the Common Pleas, for discharging an apprentice, pursuant to the statute of 1793, c. 59, § 5, no appeal lies to this Court.
    At the last term of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in this county, the complainants obtained a judgment against the said Hubhard, that Julia Ann Griffin, a minor,,and an apprentice, bound to the said Hubbard, according to the provisions of the “ Act for the relief and support, employment * and re- [ * 25 ] moval, of the poor,” &c.,  for the abuse, ill-treatment, and neglect, of the said Hubbard, should be liberated and discharged from her said master. From this judgment Hubbard appealed to this Court: and neglecting to enter and prosecute his appeal, the complainants filed their complaint praying for affirmation, &c.
    
      
      
        Stat. 1793, c. 59, § 4.
    
   But the Court,

upon looking into the statute, were of opinion that no appeal lay in the case. So the complainants took nothing by their complaint, 
      
      
         Inhab. Nantucket vs. Cotton, 14 Mass. Rep. 242.