City of New Bedford v. Inhabitants of Middleborough
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Action of contract to recover for the support of a family of paupers, alleged to have derived a settlement in Middleborough through Ezra Reynolds. The case was submitted to the superior court on an agreed statement of facts, the substance of which is stated in the opinion. Vose, J. ordered judgment for the plaintiffs, and the defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtMetcalf, J.
By the St. of 1853, c. 338, dividing the town of Middleborough and incorporating a part of it as a new town, called Lakeville, it is provided that the said towns “ shall hereafter be respectively liable for the support of all such persons, who now are relieved, or who may hereafter be relieved, as paupers, whose settlement was gained by or derived from a residence within their respective limits.” The plaintiffs therefore, in order to sustain this action, must show that Ezra Reynolds, the grandfather of the pauper, Lorenzo D. Brownell, gained or derived a settlement in Middleborough from a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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