Inhabitants of Wayland v. Inhabitants of Ware
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Conte ACT for expenses incurred in supporting a minor child of James Davis, Jr., as a pauper. The issue was whether the St. of 1865, c. 230, gave Davis a settlement with the defendants At the trial in the superior court, before Rockwell, J., after the decision reported 104 Mass. 47, it was admitted, as at the previous trial, that the settlement of Davis was with the plaintiffs, unless it was changed under § 1 of that statute, which provides that any inhabitant of a town in…
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Conte ACT for expenses incurred in supporting a minor child of James Davis, Jr., as a pauper. The issue was whether the St. of 1865, c. 230, gave Davis a settlement with the defendants At the trial in the superior court, before Rockwell, J., after the decision reported 104 Mass. 47, it was admitted, as at the previous trial, that the settlement of Davis was with the plaintiffs, unless it was changed under § 1 of that statute, which provides that any inhabitant of a town in which he had resided for six months next previous to his muster into the military or naval service of the United States,…
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
In order to establish the fact that James Davis, Jr., was credited by the war department of the United States “ as a part of the quota ” of the town of Ware, the plaintiff undertook to show that a certain number of men had been so credited at a certain date. For this purpose the certificate of the present adjutant general that it so “appears from the records of this office” was improperly admitted. 1 Greenl. Ev. § 498. Robbins v. Townsend, 20 Pick. 345. To prove a fact of record by a record not produced, requires a duly authenticated copy of the record itself, or of so much thereof as relates…
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