Inhabitants of Abington v. Inhabitants of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Error to reverse a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Plymouth, August term, 1806, rendered upon the complaint of the plaintiffs in error, in which they prayed that the legal settlement of Thomas Seymour, a pauper, and his wife, might be adjudged to be in Boston.
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Error to reverse a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Plymouth, August term, 1806, rendered upon the complaint of the plaintiffs in error, in which they prayed that the legal settlement of Thomas Seymour, a pauper, and his wife, might be adjudged to be in Boston. The evidence in the case, as stated in the Common Pleas pursuant to the statute, was, “ that the said Thomas Seymour, the pauper, was born in Boston, in September or October, 1743 ; that his father was a native of England, and his mother of Rhode Island. The father lived in Boston at the time of the birth of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The Court
(except the Chief Justice, who did not sit in this cause) affirmed the judgment of the Common Pleas, and said [*315] * there could be no doubt that a mariner, making his home in any town for more than a year, and following the business of his profession therefrom, acquired a settlement in such town. They gave no opinion whether, upon the facts in this case, the settlement of the pauper was in Barnstable or Sandwich, bul clearly it was not in Boston, (a)
Costs for the defendants
[Commonwealth vs. Walker,post, 556. — Granby vs. Amherst, 7 Mass. Rep. J. — Cutts vs. Haskins, 11 Mass. Rep. 543.…
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