Inhabitants of Granby v. Inhabitants of Amherst
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit for money expended by the plaintiffs in the support and maintenance of one Eli Emmons, a pauper, whose settlement they allege to be in Amherst. The question, whether the defendants are liable to refund the money so expended by the plaintiffs, was submitted to the deter mination of the Court upon a case stated by the parties.
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Assumpsit for money expended by the plaintiffs in the support and maintenance of one Eli Emmons, a pauper, whose settlement they allege to be in Amherst. The question, whether the defendants are liable to refund the money so expended by the plaintiffs, was submitted to the deter mination of the Court upon a case stated by the parties. The case states that Robert Emmons, and the pauper, his son, had their legal settlement in Amherst, on the first of May, 1780: the father then removed, with his son, a minor, [ * 2 ] * to Granby, where the father occupied lands, of which he was seised in fee, of…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
(after stating the facts.) Upon these facts we are to decide whether the pauper’s settlement remained in Amherst, or whether he has gained a new settlement. If the pauper has gained a new settlement, it must be either in Granby or Belchertown.
Until the statute of 1789, c. 14, a new settlement could not be gained, after the statute of 7 G. 3, c. 3, but pursuant to the provisions of this last statute; by the fourth section of which it was enacted, that no person, after the tenth of April, 1767, coming to reside or dwell in any town, shall gain a settlement in any such town, unless he first…
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