Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1810

Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase v. Crossman

Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase v. Crossman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided May 15, 1810
6 Mass. 458

Proprietors of the Kennebeck Purchase v. Crossman

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

Corporations, not such in virtue of their * locality, as towns, parishes, &c., as they have no [ * 459 ] particular place of residence, and the corporators are not such in right of their place of abode, are not entitled to tax costs for their travel. (1)

[Corporations of all kinds are usually established by law in some particular place. — Ed.]

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