Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1857

Stebbins v. Peck

Stebbins v. Peck
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided September 15, 1857 · Dewey
74 Mass. 553

Stebbins v. Peck

Opinion of the Court

Dewey, J.

This case is not affected by the Rev. Sts. c. 50, forbidding unnecessary labor on the Lord’s day; for the defendant entered on the land subsequently to the Lord’s day, on which the contract was made, and by such subsequent entry and continued occupation created a new liability if no legal contract existed previously. It was either a ratification and adoption of a previous inoperative contract, or was the foundation of a new implied provision to pay for the use of the land what the same was reasonably worth. In either aspect the

Exceptions must be overruled.

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