Inhabitants of North Bridgewater v. Inhabitants of East Bridgewater
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit for expenses incurred for the relief and support of Aaron Borren, a pauper. The question was whether his settlement was in East Bridgewater.
1Opinion of the Court
Wilde J.
drew up the opinion of the Court. The pauper is the son of James Borren and Lucy his wife, and has a derivative settlement from his mother, his father being a foreigner who has never been naturalized. Lucy Borren, the wife of James, was the illegitimate child of one Molly Aggerton, and was born about fifty years since, in that part of Bridgewater which is now East Bridgewater. She, however, acquired no settlement by birth, but had a derivative settlement from her mother. Andover v. Canton, 13 Mass. R. 550 ; Newton v. Braintree, 14 Mass. R. 382. Molly Aggerton the mothei had a legal…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Inhabitants of Newton v. Inhabitants of BraintreeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1817