Inhabitants of Springfield v. Inhabitants of Wilbraham
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was assumpsit for the charges of maintaining Sarah Colton, whom the plaintiffs alleged to have her legal settlement in Wilbraham.
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This was assumpsit for the charges of maintaining Sarah Colton, whom the plaintiffs alleged to have her legal settlement in Wilbraham. The parties made a statement of facts for the opinion of the Court, in which it was agreed that Stephen Colton, the father of the pauper, and also the pauper, were once settled in Wilbraham, the settlement of the pauper being derived from her father; that, in November, 1787, the said Stephen, with his daughter, who was then near thirty years of age, and living with him, removed to a farm in Monson, of more than three pounds’ annual income, of which he was…
1Opinion of the Court
The cause was continued nisi for advisement, and, at the next March term in Suffolk, the opinion of the Court was delivered by
Parsons, C. J.
[After reciting the facts as before stated.] It is very properly admitted by the parties, that the father gained a settlement in Monson. This point * came before [ * 495 ] the Court in the case of Salem vs. Andover, (ante, vol. iii. 436,) and it was held that the occupation by any citizen of his freehold of the annual income of three pounds, and situate in the town in which the owner resides, for two years after the statute of 1789, c. 14, which was…
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