SHREWSBURY v. MURPHY


333 Mass. 290 (1955)

130 N.E.2d 559

TOWN OF SHREWSBURY vs. GARRETT J. MURPHY, administrator.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Worcester.

December 2, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley G. Barker, Town Counsel, for the plaintiff.

James A. Crotty, Jr., for the defendant.

Present: QUA, C.J., RONAN, SPALDING, WILLIAMS, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


COUNIHAN, J.

This is an action of contract to recover money paid by the plaintiff town by way of old age assistance to the defendant's intestate, Ellen Daley. G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 118A, § 4A, as appearing in St. 1948, c. 581, § 3. The action was tried before a judge without a jury upon a statement of agreed facts. The judge found for the defendant. We treat this finding as an order for judgment. The plaintiff appealed. G.L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 231, § 96. There...

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