Inhabitants of Abington v. Inhabitants of Duxbury
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract to recover money paid by the plaintiffs for the relief of Jane E. Bradley and her minor child, Eliza A. Bradley, as paupers, whose settlement was alleged to be with the defendants.
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Contract to recover money paid by the plaintiffs for the relief of Jane E. Bradley and her minor child, Eliza A. Bradley, as paupers, whose settlement was alleged to be with the defendants. Writ dated September 15, 1866. Trial in the superior court, before Seudder, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions of which the following is the substance of the material parts: The plaintiffs proved that Jane E. Bradley and her child Eliza fell into distress in the town of Abington, and were relieved as paupers by the overseers of the poor of the town; and it appeared that the said Jane, at and long before…
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
Some of the points presented in this case are unimportant in themselves; others are rendered so by the view which we take of the principal questions involved; and we have no occasion further to advert to them.
The action is brought to recover expenses incurred by the plaintiff town for the support, as paupers, of Jane E. Bradley and her daughter Eliza. It was in proof, without controversy, that Jane E. was the wife of James F. Bradley; and that Eliza was bom after their intermarriage. The plaintiffs claimed, and offered evidence to prove, that Eliza was in fact illegitimate. Upon that ground,…
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