Commonwealth v. City of Boston

This action of contract under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 122, § 10, as amended, for the care and support of one Horrigan at the State Infirmary at Tewksbury from March 16, 1939, to January 27, 1943, raises the sole question whether previously he had acquired a settlement in the defendant city. The case was tried on a statement of agreed facts, from which the following appears: Horrigan was born in Watertown in 1881, came to Boston “in 1929,” and resided there until his admission on March 16, 1939, to the State Infirmary at Tewksbury, where he was still a patient at the time of the trial. He served…