Inhabitants of Sheffield v. Inhabitants of Otis
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract to recover the amount of expenses incurred by the plaintiffs for the support, as a pauper, of Candace, wife of William W. Walley, whom, they contended to have gained a settlement with the defendants, under the Sts. of 1865, c. 230 and 1868, c. 328, § 3, by his service as a soldier during the civil war.
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Contract to recover the amount of expenses incurred by the plaintiffs for the support, as a pauper, of Candace, wife of William W. Walley, whom, they contended to have gained a settlement with the defendants, under the Sts. of 1865, c. 230 and 1868, c. 328, § 3, by his service as a soldier during the civil war. The case was heard in the superior court without a jury, and reported by Devens, J., under an agreement of the parties “ that such facts might be found as were in dispute, and the whole case reported for the decision of ” this court “ as to whether the plaintiffs are entitled to…
1Opinion of the Court
Mobton", J.
The plaintiffs are entitled to recover if William W. Walley gained a settlement in the town of Otis under the St. of 1865, c. 230. The first section of this act, as amended by the St. of 1868, e. 328, § 3, provides that any person who shall have been duly enlisted and mustered into the military or naval service of the United States, as a part of the quota of any city or town in this Commonwealth, under any call of the President of the United States, during the recent civil war, and who shall have served not less than one year, and the wife or widow and minor children of such…
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