Brown v. Chase
This text of 4 Mass. 436 (Brown v. Chase) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
reversed the judgment without argument, because the verdict does not find the issue joined, nor does the judgment follow the verdict. They also said that the action ought not to have been [383]*383brought against the guardian, but against the spendthrift, who might defend by his guardian.
moved for costs.
The Chief Justice observed that he saw no sufficient reason'why costs should not be given. But the practice having been uniform not to grant them where the judgment is reversed for error in law, it cannot be shaken without great consideration. And the motion was denied.
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