Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1817

Inhabitants of Brewer v. Inhabitants of New Gloucester

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided June 15, 1817

14 Mass. 216

Cases that cite this one

12 later published cases cite this decision.

Adams v. President of Wiscasset Bank (Me. 1821)
Union Savings Bank v. Cameron (Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div. 1945)
Willoughby v. Chicago Junction Railways & Union Stock Co. (New Jersey Court of Chancery 1892)
Barker v. Remick (N.H. 1861)
Richardson v. Butterfield (Mass. 1850)
Johnson v. McLaughlin (Ala. 1846)
Gaskill v. Dudley (Mass. 1843)
Ingraham v. Olcock (Superior Court of New Hampshire 1843)
Guild v. Richardson (Mass. 1828)
Todd v. Birdsall (New York Supreme Court 1823)
Hubbard v. Sanborn (Superior Court of New Hampshire 1822)
Gage v. Graffam (Mass. 1814)

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Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

The statute, describing the duty and power of coroners, (1) directs that all writs and precepts, when the sheriff or either of his deputies shall be a party to the same, shall be served by the coroner. As the law provides that, when judgment is recovered against the inhabitants of a town, execution may be levied upon the property of any inhabitant, each inhabitant must be considered as a party, within the meaning of the statute referred to, when the suit is by or against the town in its corporate capacity, (a)

Writ abated.

Stat. 1783, c. 43, § 1.

[Sutton vs. Cole, 8 Mass. Rep. 96. — Odiorne vs. Wade, 8 Mass. Rep. 115. — Lufkin vs. Haskell, 3 Pick. 356. — Bank vs. Cook, 4 Pick. 405. — Ed.]

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