Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1807

Willard v. Ward

Willard v. Ward
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided July 15, 1807
3 Mass. 24

Willard v. Ward

Opinion of the Court

Curia.

We always require evidence to support the allegations in the petition. The legal costs which the respondent can tax, in case the petitioner fails of success, are quite an insufficient recompense for being compelled to appear and answer to a complaint which may be idle or vexatious.

Upon Bigelow’s urging some circumstances of hardship in the petitioner’s case, and stipulating to pay double costs, if he failed of obtaining a review, the Court made a rule to show cause.

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