Case Name: The Inhabitants of Alfred, Plaintiffs in Error, versus The Inhabitants of Saco
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1811-05
Citations: 6 Tyng 380
Docket Number: 
Parties: The Inhabitants of Alfred, Plaintiffs in Error, versus The Inhabitants of Saco.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 318–318

Head Matter:
The Inhabitants of Alfred, Plaintiffs in Error, versus The Inhabitants of Saco.
Error does not lie upon a judgment rendered on a case stated and submitted by the parties to tile opinion of the Court.
The writ of error in this case was brought to reverse a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas for this county, rendered in an action originally commenced by the plaintiffs in error, before a justice of the peace, for expenses incurred in the support of a pauper alleged by them to have his legal settlement in the town of Saco. The action being carried by appeal to the Common Pleas, and the only question being whether the pauper’s settlement was or was not in Saco, the parties submitted that question to the determination of the Common Pleas, upon certain facts stated, and it was agreed that, if the opinion of that court should be, that the pauper had not his legal settlement in Saco, the plaintiffs should become nonsuit. Such being the opinion of the court, the plaintiffs became nonsuit accordingly, and the defendants had judgment for their costs.

Opinion:
The Court,
being of opinion that error does not lie to reverse a judgment rendered, as in this case, upon a case stated and referred by the parties to the opinion of the Court, did not hear the errors assigned, but quashed the writ of error.