Inhabitants of Spencer v. Inhabitants of Leicester
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
■ Contract for money expended by the plaintiff in the relief of Margaret Edwards and her minor children, whose settlement was alleged to be in the defendant town. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant, to this court, on appeal, upon agreed facts, in substance as follows: Margaret Edwards was the widow of Adonis A. Edwards, to whom she was lawfully married on April 28, 1877, and by whom she had the children above mentioned.
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■ Contract for money expended by the plaintiff in the relief of Margaret Edwards and her minor children, whose settlement was alleged to be in the defendant town. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant, to this court, on appeal, upon agreed facts, in substance as follows: Margaret Edwards was the widow of Adonis A. Edwards, to whom she was lawfully married on April 28, 1877, and by whom she had the children above mentioned. The parents of Margaret, at the time of her marriage, had a settlement in the plaintiff town. Adonis was twenty-one years old…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, C. J.
The plaintiff contends that Sarah E, Edwards, a married woman, gained a settlement in Leicester, she having bought a farm in that town in 1873, taking the deed in her owp name, and having occupied it with her husband for more than three years.
The statute upon which the plaintiff relies provides that “ any person of the age of twenty-one years, having an estate of inheritance or freehold in any place within the State, and living on the same three years successively, shall thereby gain a settlement in such place.” Pub. Sts. c. 83, § 1, cl. 4. This provision of our settlement laws has been in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- City of Somerville v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
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