Inhabitants of Somerset v. Inhabitants of Rehoboth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action of assumpsit, to recover for the expenses incurred by the plaintiffs, in the support of Phebe Allen, a pauper, alleged to have her settlement in the town of Rehoboth. The case was tried before Dewey, J., by whom it was reported for the consideration of the. whole court.
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This was an action of assumpsit, to recover for the expenses incurred by the plaintiffs, in the support of Phebe Allen, a pauper, alleged to have her settlement in the town of Rehoboth. The case was tried before Dewey, J., by whom it was reported for the consideration of the. whole court. It was in evidence, among other things, not material to be stated, that Phebe Allen was the wife, and had the settlement of Richard Allen, who was a lineal descendant of Benjamin Allen, through his son Joseph Allen, from whom Richard Allen derived his settlement; that Joseph Allen was the legitimate son of…
1Opinion of the CourtMetcalf, J.
The conclusion to which the court have come, on the question of the pauper’s settlement, renders it unnecessary to decide any other question raised in the case.
The St. of 1789, c. 14, § 1, contained the following enactment : “ All persons, citizens of this commonwealth, who, before the tenth day of April, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven, resided or dwelt in any town or district in the then province of Massachusetts bay for the space of one year, not having been warned to depart, according to law, shall be deemed and taken to be inhabitants of the same town or district, to every…
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