City of Brockton v. Inhabitants of Uxbridge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for supplies furnished by the plaintiff to James P. Williams, a pauper, in 1882. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Barker, J., who found for the plaintiff; and, at the defendant’s request, reported the case for the determination of this court. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDevens, J.
The plaintiff seeks to establish against the defendant town that James P. Williams, a pauper to whom necessary supplies were furnished by it, had acquired a settlement .therein under that portion of the Pub. Sts. e. 83, § 1, cl. 11, which gives such settlement to any one who was duly assigned as a part of the quota of any town, after having been enlisted and mustered into the military or naval service of the United States during the late civil war, and who duly served for not less than one year.
Under the earlier requisitions for troops, there was no occasion to assign to counties, cities,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Inhabitants of Bridgewater v. Inhabitants of PlymouthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
3Cited by4 opinions
- Dunn v. Commissioner of Civil ServiceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1933
- City of Worcester v. Inhabitants of NorthboroughMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886
- City of Boston v. Inhabitants of Mount WashingtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1885
- Town of Dedham v. City of NewtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1946