Inhabitants of Billerica v. Inhabitants of Chelmsford
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit for the support of one Jotham Farmer, a pauper, alleged by the plaintiffs to have had his settlement in Chelmsford. The action was submitted to the decision of the Court upon the following facts stated and agreed by the parties: — The said Farmer was born in Chelmsford, and at the time when the supplies were furnished by the plaintiffs had, and still has, his legal settlement in Chelmsford, unless he has acquired a settlement in Billerica.
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Assumpsit for the support of one Jotham Farmer, a pauper, alleged by the plaintiffs to have had his settlement in Chelmsford. The action was submitted to the decision of the Court upon the following facts stated and agreed by the parties: — The said Farmer was born in Chelmsford, and at the time when the supplies were furnished by the plaintiffs had, and still has, his legal settlement in Chelmsford, unless he has acquired a settlement in Billerica. In the year 1793, he came from Chelmsford to Billerica, where he resided until the autumn of the year 1795, when he removed, with his family and…
1Opinion of the CourtSew all, J.
If a residence or home, uninterruptedly occupied through one continued term of ten years, is required in the provision of the statute relied on for the defendants in this case, then a question to be determined is, whether the other requisite, of a payment of taxes, is established by the facts agreed, or not.
The provision of the statute, which is the twelfth mode of gaining a legal settlement, requires the residence of a citizen of the age ol twenty-one years in a town or district for the space of -ten years, togethei with the payment of taxes for any five years within said time.
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