Inhabitants of Stockbridge v. Inhabitants of West Stockbridge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
* This was assumpsit for expenses incurred by the [*4001 plaintiffs in the support of one Frank Duncan, a pauper, alleged by them to have his legal settlement in West Stockbridge. The action was submitted to the determination of the Court upon the following case stated.
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* This was assumpsit for expenses incurred by the [*4001 plaintiffs in the support of one Frank Duncan, a pauper, alleged by them to have his legal settlement in West Stockbridge. The action was submitted to the determination of the Court upon the following case stated. In July, 1774, the place since called West Stockbridge was organized as a district, and for thirty years past the inhabitants thereof have acted as a town ; but no charter or act of incorporation is to be found in Boston, or elsewhere. The deposition of Elijah Williams was used at the trial, and came up in the case ; and it…
1Opinion of the CourtWilde, J.
Two questions are made upon the facts agreed in this case.
1. Whether the deposition of Elijah Williams be admissible evidence, to prove the incorporation of the town of West Stockbridge.
2. If such evidence be admissible, whether the pauper ever gained a. settlement in that town.
*351The first question does not seem to admit of a reasonable doubt and the counsel for the defendants, in their argument, have declined very properly, we think, to insist on this ground of defence.
Records, generally, are to be proved by inspection, or by copies properly authenticated ; but, if there be sufficient proof of…
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- Schauber v. JacksonCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1828
- Inhabitants of Winchendon v. Inhabitants of HatfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1808
- Inhabitants of Stockbridge v. Inhabitants of West StockbridgeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1817
- Inhabitants of Andover v. Inhabitants of CantonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1816
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