Inhabitants of Needham v. City of Fitchburg

The judge was warranted in finding on the agreed facts, that Hinds and his family had a legal settlement in the defendant city on and prior to July 13, 1911, but that thereafter he never lived, nor was he in Fitchburg except for three months and twenty days, when, suffering from tuberculosis, he became an inmate of a public hospital in the city, to which he had been sent by the overseers of the poor of the plaintiff acting under the direction of the defendant’s board of health. It is not contended that relief was not furnished and due notice given by the plaintiff; nor is the amount claimed…