Inhabitants of Upton v. Inhabitants of Northbridge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit for the expense of supporting Israel Hill, a pauper, alleged by the plaintiffs to have had his lawful settlement in North-bridge.
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Assumpsit for the expense of supporting Israel Hill, a pauper, alleged by the plaintiffs to have had his lawful settlement in North-bridge. At the trial before the Chief Justice, at the last April term, in this county, nothing was in dispute but the question of settlement; and relative to that point, the following facts were proved, viz.: The pauper was the son of Jacob Hill, who had formerly removed from Upton to Northbridge, and had gained a settlement in the latter town before the year 1793; which settlement continued to that time. In that year, and while the father’s settlement was in…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
This case presents an important question, which seems yet to have been left unsettled. The pauper for whose support the suit is brought is found by the jury to have been non compos mentis; and, from the facts proved, it is to be presumed that he has been so a nativitate. In 1793, the pauper’s father had his settlement in Northbridge ; and the pauper was then twenty-one years of age, and, but for his imbecility, was capable of acquiring a settlement himself. The removal of his father to Upton, and his regaining a settlement, would not, but for the cause aforesaid, have carried with it the…
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