City of Boston v. Inhabitants of Mount Washington
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for expenses incurred in the support of Maurice Roach, a pauper, from December 8, 1881, to February 24, 1883. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the plaintiff, to this court, on appeal, upon agreed facts, in substance as follows: Maurice Roach was born in Kittery, in the State of Maine, and neither he nor his parents ever lived in the defendant town.
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Contract for expenses incurred in the support of Maurice Roach, a pauper, from December 8, 1881, to February 24, 1883. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the plaintiff, to this court, on appeal, upon agreed facts, in substance as follows: Maurice Roach was born in Kittery, in the State of Maine, and neither he nor his parents ever lived in the defendant town. On April 9, 1861, which was before the beginning of the Rebellion, he entered the naval service of the United States at Boston, being there duly enlisted and mustered in for the term of three years as a…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
Maurice Roach was assigned as part of the quota of the defendant town under the U. S. St. of July 4, 1864, § 8; but it is admitted, if competent, that he had been enlisted and mustered into the service of the United States about five days before the beginning of the Rebellion. The defendant argues that Roach was not properly credited to it under the above statute, and that therefore he was not “ duly assigned as a part of the quota thereof ” under the settlement law of this State. St. 1878, c. 190, § 1, cl. 10. Pub. Sts. c. 83, § 1, cl. 11. But we do not so understand the Massachusetts act.…
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