Inhabitants of Lunenburg v. Inhabitants of Shirley

By this action the plaintiff seeks to charge the defendant with sums expended for the support of the wife and children of Peter Smith, on August 4, 1878. Smith served as a part of the defendant’s quota during the civil war, and the plaintiff contends that he acquired a settlement in the defendant town by virtue of the St. of 1878, a. 190, § 1, cl. 10.

That statute provides that a soldier duly enlisted and mustered as a part of the quota of a town, who “ shall have duly served for not less than one year,” or shall have died or become disabled in the service, or while a prisoner in the hands of…