Brown v. Inhabitants of the County of Somerset
This text of 11 Mass. 221 (Brown v. Inhabitants of the County of Somerset) 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
The case of a court is different from that of individual citizens. One court succeeds another, and takes, by statute, all the powers and authorities of its predecessor. The decision in Hawkes’s case was grounded upon the test of the writ; although the reasoning of the chief justice, in delivering the opinion of the Court, supports the objection made by the defendants’ counsel, grounded upon that decision.
Judgment according to the verdict.
Vide Stat. 1809, c. 127.
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