Inhabitants of Bridgewater v. Inhabitants of Dartmouth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
In this action, which was assumpsit for sundry expenses incurred by the plaintiffs in providing for and burying sundry paupers alleged to have had their legal settlement in Dartmouth, the jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs by consent of the parties, subject to the opinion of the Court upon a case stated.
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In this action, which was assumpsit for sundry expenses incurred by the plaintiffs in providing for and burying sundry paupers alleged to have had their legal settlement in Dartmouth, the jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs by consent of the parties, subject to the opinion of the Court upon a case stated. The facts, as well as the points made in the cause, will sufficiently appear in the opinion of the Court now delivered (the action having been continued nisi from the last October term at Plymouth) by
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
The action is assumpsit, in which the plaintiffs demand of the defendants the sum of 242 dollars 27 cents for the maintenance of Jane Wing, and her three children, John, Cassandra, and Priscilla, and for the funeral expenses of John, [*274] between the months of July, 1804, * and November, 1805 ; and also a further sum of 20 dollars for the maintenance and funeral expenses of Hannah Slocum, alleging that they were all paupers, whose settlements were in Dartmouth.
Upon the general issue pleaded, a verdict was found for the plaintiffs, for the two sums, by the consent of parties, subject to the…
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