Inhabitants of Groton v. Inhabitants of Boxborough
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit for money laid out and expended by the plaintiffs, in supporting a pauper alleged to have his settlement in Boxborough The cause was tried on the general issue, at the sittings after the last October term in this county, before Parker, J., and a ver diet taken for the plaintiffs, subject to the opinion [*51] * of the Court, whether the pauper was settled in Groton or Boxborough, from the facts reported by the judge who sat in the trial.
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Assumpsit for money laid out and expended by the plaintiffs, in supporting a pauper alleged to have his settlement in Boxborough The cause was tried on the general issue, at the sittings after the last October term in this county, before Parker, J., and a ver diet taken for the plaintiffs, subject to the opinion [*51] * of the Court, whether the pauper was settled in Groton or Boxborough, from the facts reported by the judge who sat in the trial. It is reported that in January, 1803, the pauper, then being settled in Boxborough, purchased lands in fee simple in Groton, of a greater clear…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
The merits of the question arising on the facts in this case must depend on the construction of a paragraph in the statute of 1794, c. 34. The description of the fourth manner in *43which a settlement may be gained is, that “ any person of twenty-one years of age, being a citizen of this, or of any of the United States, having an estate of inheritance, or freehold, in the town where he dwells, of the clear yearly value of ten dollars, and taking the rents and profits thereof three years successively, whether he lives thereupon or not, shall thereby gain a settlement therein.”
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