Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1881

Sturtevant v. Inhabitants of Pembroke

Sturtevant v. Inhabitants of Pembroke
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided February 25, 1881
130 Mass. 373; 1881 Mass. LEXIS 104
Sturtevant v. Inhabitants of Pembroke

Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

This action is within the provision of the Gen. Sts. c. 155, § 1, by which “ actions of contract founded upon any contract or liability not under seal, express or implied,” (except upon judgments of courts of the United States or of one of the States,) are barred in six years after the cause of action accrues.

Exceptions overruled.

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