COUNTY COMM. OF FRANKLIN v. CTY. COMM. OF WORCESTER


383 Mass. 323 (1981)

418 N.E.2d 1251

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF FRANKLIN vs. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF WORCESTER (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Franklin, Hampden.

April 6, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geoffrey A. Wilson for County Commissioners of Franklin.

Harry Zarrow for County Commissioners of Worcester.

William H. Welch for County Commissioners of Hampshire.

Savino J. Basile for County Commissioners of Hampden.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., BRAUCHER, WILKINS, LIACOS, & ABRAMS, JJ.


WILKINS, J.

These cases, consolidated for trial, present the question, reported by the trial judge, whether a county to whose jail or house of correction a prisoner is directly sentenced has a claim for reimbursement for the expense of supporting the prisoner against the county in which the prisoner was sentenced. The parties disagree as to the proper construction of G.L.c. 127, § 125, as appearing in St. 1955, c. 770, § 63, which provides in relevant part...

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