City of Cambridge v. Inhabitants of Paxton

Bernard Hastings was duly enlisted and mustered into the naval service of the United States as a part of the quota of the town of Paxton during the late civil war, duly served for a period of more than one year, and left the service by an honorable discharge. Unless lie is, from some cause, one of the persons not included within the operation of the St. of 1865, c. 230, (Pub. Sts. c. 83, § 1, cl. 11,) or unless he has since acquired a legal settlement elsewhere within the State, by which' an earlier settlement would be defeated, his settlement is within the defendant town, and the plaintiff…