City of Boston v. Inhabitants of Warwick
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for aid furnished to Dennis Lowney, a pauper. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant, to this court on appeal, upon an agreed statement of facts, in substance as follows: In December 1864, Dennis Lowney, having no settlement in this Commonwealth, was duly enlisted and mustered into the naval service of the United States as a part of the quota of the town of Warwick, under a call of the President of the United States…
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Contract for aid furnished to Dennis Lowney, a pauper. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the defendant, to this court on appeal, upon an agreed statement of facts, in substance as follows: In December 1864, Dennis Lowney, having no settlement in this Commonwealth, was duly enlisted and mustered into the naval service of the United States as a part of the quota of the town of Warwick, under a call of the President of the United States during the recent civil war, and continued in such service until August 1866. He resided in Boston from June 1868 to January…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, C. J.
The St. of 1870, c. 392, § 3, provided that any person who shall have enlisted in the naval or military service of the United States as a part of the quota of any city or town in this Commonwealth during the recent civil war, and who shall have continued in such service for a term not less than one year, “shall be deemed thereby to have acquired a settlement in such city or town.”
Under this statute, Dennis Lowney, the pauper for whose support this suit is brought, undoubtedly acquired a settlement in Warwick. The plaintiff contends that this settlement was acquired in 1870; and that it cannot…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- City of Worcester v. City of SpringfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
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