Inhabitants of Friendship v. Inhabitants of Bristol

Action on the case for pauper supplies furnished a person found destitute in the town of Friendship. The case is *287reported on an agreed statement of facts of which the pleadings are made a part.

The case states that the pauper formerly lived and had a legal settlement in the town of Bristol, but sometime prior to January 1, 1916, came to Friendship and has since “resided” there. He was of age and emancipated when he arrived in that town and during the following years neither directly nor indirectly received any supplies as a pauper until March 9, 1932, when he applied to the overseers of the…