Inhabitants of Townsend v. Inhabitants of Pepperell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for expenses incurred in supporting Mary Gilson, an insane pauper. The issue was, whether her settlement was with the defendants or with the plaintiffs.
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Contract for expenses incurred in supporting Mary Gilson, an insane pauper. The issue was, whether her settlement was with the defendants or with the plaintiffs. At the trial in the superior court, before Putnam, J., it appeared that she was born in Pepperell on the 19th of November 1801, and, when she became of age in 1822, her father had a settlement there; but that he afterwards removed to Townsend, where he gained a settlement in 1842 and resided until his death, and where she lived with him until in 1856 she became hopelessly insane; and that in 1858 she was put under guardianship, and…
1Opinion of the CourtChapman, J.
The subject of the controversy in this case was the insanity of Mary Gilson in 1822, when she became of age. The testimony of Mr. Farrar in his deposition, that the people used to have a good deal of sympathy with her, was properly ruled out, because it was not pertinent to the issue. The opinions and hearsay statements in his other answers were also excluded properly. The same remark applies to Mrs. Shattuck’s answers, except a part of the fourteenth. But this answer was offered as a whole, and the part that is competent was not offered to be read separately from the rest.
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