Inhabitants of Stoughton v. City of Cambridge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, upon an account annexed, to recover the amount expended by the plaintiff town for the support of Elicia King and her two minor children, paupers, whose settlement was alleged to be in the defendant city. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Dewey, J., who reported the case for the determination of this court, in substance as follows.
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Contract, upon an account annexed, to recover the amount expended by the plaintiff town for the support of Elicia King and her two minor children, paupers, whose settlement was alleged to be in the defendant city. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Dewey, J., who reported the case for the determination of this court, in substance as follows. Elicia King and her two minor children, while in Stoughton, fell into distress, and stood in need of immediate relief, and the overseers of the poor of Stoughton provided such relief at an expense of $156.50, as set out in the…
1Opinion of the CourtAllen, J.
According to the terms of the report, Thomas King, the husband, never had a settlement in this Commonwealth, and his wife had none at the time of her marriage to him, and has gained none since in Cambridge, unless she “ resided ” there for five years together, within the meaning of Pub. Sts. c. 83, § 1, els. 6, 7.
The word “ residence ” is used in different senses. Generally, *253in the laws relating to taxation, voting, and settlement, it means the same as domicil. Usually it means the same in the law of divorce; Shaw v. Shaw, 98 Mass. 158, 159; though with a well recognized exception. Burlen v.…
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- Burtis v. BurtisMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
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