Inhabitants of Wrentham v. Inhabitants of Attleborough
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action of the case in assumpsit for the support and maintenance of Ebenezer Richardson and his family, alleged by the plaintiffs to be paupers, having their legal settlement in Attleborough.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered at the following March term in Suffolk by
Parsons, C. J.
The question brought before the Court in this action, depends on the construction of a paragraph in the second section of the statute of 1793, c. 34., compared with the facts agreed. The paragraph referred to constitutes the twelfth mode, by which a settlement may be gained, and it provides that “ any person, being a citizen of this or any of the United States, and of the age of twenty-one years, who shall hereafter reside in any town or district within this state for the space of ten years together,…
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