Inhabitants of Fitchburg v. Inhabitants of Lunenburg
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract to recover money expended for the support of the cnildren of Calvin D. Sanderson, who, the plaintiffs contended, had acquired a settlement with the defendants under the St. of 1865, c. 230. At the trial in the superior court, before Morton, J., it appeared that Sanderson was duly enlisted and mustered into the military service of the United States; that he was at the time of his muster, and had been for the six months next previous, an inhabitant of Lunenburg; that…
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Contract to recover money expended for the support of the cnildren of Calvin D. Sanderson, who, the plaintiffs contended, had acquired a settlement with the defendants under the St. of 1865, c. 230. At the trial in the superior court, before Morton, J., it appeared that Sanderson was duly enlisted and mustered into the military service of the United States; that he was at the time of his muster, and had been for the six months next previous, an inhabitant of Lunenburg; that he was of full age at the time of his enlistment; and that he had been in the service not less than a year when he was…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
The defendants admit that, under the St. of 1865 c. 236, and the decision of this court in Bridgewater v. Plymouth, 97 Mass. 382, Calvin D. Sanderson, by being enlisted and mustered into the military service of the United States as a part of the quota of the town of Lunenburg during the recent civil war, ayd continuing in such service for more than a year, acquired a settlement in that town, unless'he was prevented from so doing by the third section of that statute, which is as follows: “ The provisions of this act shall not apply to any person who shall ha ze enlisted and received a bounty…
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