Inhabitants of Whately v. Inhabitants of Hatfield
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract by the town of Whately against the town of Hatfield for expenditures amounting to $261.52 incurred on and for a period after September 3, 1904, for the immediate relief and support of the family of one John Wagner, a pauper alleged to have a settlement in Hatfield. Writ dated March 29, 1906. In the Superior Court the case was submitted upon an agreed statement of facts to Fessenden, J., who ordered judgment for the defendant. The plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The amount disbursed by the plaintiff for the relief as paupers of the wife and children of John Wagner cannot be recovered from the defendant if he previously had gained a settlement in Whately. R. L. c. 81, § 1; c. 80, § 1, els. 1, 2. In the agreed facts his domicil of origin is not stated, but he is shown to have removed with his family from Hatfield to the plaintiff town in March, 1896, where he continued to reside until October, 1902, unless his absence therefrom for four months in 1897 under a sentence to the house of correction is to be treated as an interruption. But for this term of…
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