City of Worcester v. City of Springfield

This is an action to recover for aid furnished to the wife and minor children of John Malony, as paupers, in the years 1876 and 1877. It appeared that John resided in Springfield from July 1862 to December 1867, and paid taxes duly assessed to him for three years within that time. He became' of the age of twenty-one years in May 1861. This was sufficient to give him a settlement in Springfield, under the St. of 1874, e. 274, § 1, if it applied to his case. But that section is qualified by § 3, which provides that “no existing settlement shall be changed by any provision of this act, unless…