Inhabitants of Walpole v. Inhabitants of West Cambridge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The writ of error in this case was brought to reverse a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas for this county, adjudging the settlement of Nathaniel Nason, a pauper, to be in the town of Walpole., and ordering his removal thither from the town of West Cambridge, to which town the court say he was likely to become chargeable.
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The writ of error in this case was brought to reverse a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas for this county, adjudging the settlement of Nathaniel Nason, a pauper, to be in the town of Walpole., and ordering his removal thither from the town of West Cambridge, to which town the court say he was likely to become chargeable. The process was originated by a complaint of the overseers of the poor of West Cambridge to a justice of the peace for the county of Middlesex, in which they allege * generally that the said Nason, then resident in said town, was become poor, and was likely to become…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
As the statute expressly requires the Common Pleas to state the facts upon which they found their judgment, and it is very certain that they have not done it in the case before us, the judgment must be reversed. On the other point made by the counsel for the plaintiff in error, we are of opinion that a pauper is not removable, unless actually chargeable, or likely to become so, from one or other of the causes mentioned in the statute. The form of the complaint furnished in the statute is general, and must be adapted, by him who has occasion to use it, to the circumstances of the…
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