# Brown v. Inhabitants of the County of Somerset

> Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · May 15, 1814 · 11 Mass. 221

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6404179

## Case

- **Full name:** John Brown versus The Inhabitants of the County of Somerset
- **Court:** Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- **Decided:** May 15, 1814
- **Citations:** 11 Mass. 221
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court
- **Cited by:** 4 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Per Curiam.
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.
(2)
Vide Stat. 1809, c. 127.

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