Inhabitants of Cummington v. Inhabitants of Belchertown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
CONTRACT to recover expenses incurred by the plaintiff for the support of an insane pauper in a lunatic hospital. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Blodgett, J., who ruled that the action could not be maintained, and found for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. If the ruling was correct, it was agreed that judgment was to be entered for the defendant; otherwise, for the plaintiff for the sum declared for, with interest.
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CONTRACT to recover expenses incurred by the plaintiff for the support of an insane pauper in a lunatic hospital. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Blodgett, J., who ruled that the action could not be maintained, and found for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. If the ruling was correct, it was agreed that judgment was to be entered for the defendant; otherwise, for the plaintiff for the sum declared for, with interest. The case was argued at the bar for the plaintiff, and submitted on a brief for the defendant, in September, 1888, and afterwards was…
1Opinion of the CourtDeyens, J.
Mrs. Angie L. Richards, the expenses of whose support as an insane panper are here in controversy, had, as Angie L. Root, a legal settlement in the defendant town at the time of her marriage. She acquired one in the plaintiff town by her marriage, on June 10, 1873, with Charles A. Richards, who was there settled. Milford v. Worcester, 7 Mass. 48. It is the contention of the plaintiff, that, the marriage of the pauper *224having been legally annulled as having been procured by fraud, her settlement in Cummington thus gained is destroyed, and that in Belchertown is revived, it having been suspended…
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