Case Name: Treasurer and Receiver General vs. City of Fitchburg
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1921-01-19
Citations: 237 Mass. 359
Docket Number: 
Parties: Treasurer and Receiver General vs. City of Fitchburg.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 237
Pages: 359–360

Head Matter:
Treasurer and Receiver General vs. City of Fitchburg.
Suffolk.
January 3, 1921.
January 19, 1921.
Present: Rugg, C. J., Braley, De Courcy, Crosby, & Carroll, JJ.
Pauper. Settlement.
Needham v. Fitchburg, ante, 354, followed.
Contract, under St. 1907, c. 474, § 10, as amended by St. 1912, c. 17, for $296.56 for the support of the Harry B. S. Hinds described in the case of Needham v. Fitchburg, ante, 354, in Lake- ville State Sanatorium from May 28, 1917, to October 28, 1918. Writ dated May 25,1920.
In the Superior Court, the case was heard by Sisk, J., without a jury, upon an agreed statement of facts, which, as to the question of settlement of Hinds, were the same as those agreed upon in Needham, v. Fitchburg, ante, 354, and the defendant asked for substantially the same rulings of law as in that case, relying solely on the contention, there raised, that Hinds had lost his settlement in Fitchburg.
The judge on the question of the settlement of Hinds made the same rulings as in the previous case, found for the plaintiff in the sum of $296.56 and interest and reported the case for determination by this court.
The case was submitted on briefs. '
C. T. Flynn, for the defendant.
J. W. Allen, Attorney General, & J. B. Benton, Assistant Attorney General, for the plaintiff.

Opinion:
Bealey, J.
It is settled by Needham, v. Fitchburg, ante, 354, that on the agreed facts in the present case, Hinds, during the time he was an inmate of the tuberculosis department of the "Lakeville State Sanatorium," had his legal settlement in the defendant city. It having been agreed that no security was given for his support, nor any payment made therefor, and the amount not being in dispute, judgment for the plaintiff should be entered. St. 1902, c. 213, as amended by St. 1907, c. 386. St. 1907, c. 474, § 10, as amended by St. 1912, c. 17, § 1.
So ordered.