Inhabitants of Buckfield v. Inhabitants of Gorham
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This writ of error was brought to reverse a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Oxford, which was rendered upon the complaint of the overseers of the poor for the town of Buckfield, alleging that Sarah Irish, the widow of John Irish, deceased, a pauper, had become chargeable to the town of Buckfield, and that her legal settlement was in Gorham, in the county of Cumberland.
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This writ of error was brought to reverse a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Oxford, which was rendered upon the complaint of the overseers of the poor for the town of Buckfield, alleging that Sarah Irish, the widow of John Irish, deceased, a pauper, had become chargeable to the town of Buckfield, and that her legal settlement was in Gorham, in the county of Cumberland. The court below adjudged the settlement of the pauper to be in Buckfield, and awarded costs to Gorham, to be paid by the inhabitants of Buckfield. From the statement of the facts made by the Common…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
The inhabitants of Buckfield have sued this writ of error to obtain a reversal of the judgment complained of, pursuant to the statute of 1793, c. 59, which gives this writ, and which authorizes this Court, if the judgment below be erroneous, to render such judgment as the Common Pleas ought to have given, with costs for the party prevailing. Three objections are made to the judgment.
*365The place of the pauper’s settlement is the subject of the first objection. As John Irish, the husband of the pauper, was an inhabitant of the plantation of Gorham, when, in 1764, it was incorporated and made the…
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