Case ID: mass_6/html/0375-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      By the Court.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase versus Nathan Crossman.
    Corporations, not being such in virtue of their locality, cannot tax costs for travel.
    The plaintiffs in this action, having obtained a verdict, moved the Court that they might be allowed to tax costs for their travel from Boston, where their office is situate, their records kept, and their meetings uniformly held.
   By the Court.

Corporations, not such in virtue of their * locality, as towns, parishes, &c., as they have no [ * 459 ] particular place of residence, and the corporators are not such in right of their place of abode, are not entitled to tax costs for their travel. 
      
       [Corporations of all kinds are usually established by law in some particular place. — Ed.]