Inhabitants of Brewster v. Inhabitants of Harwich
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a writ of error brought in the county of Barnstable, to reverse a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas for that county, by which the settlement of the wife and two children of Stephen Snow, a pauper, was adjudged to be in Brewster.
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
It appears from the record sent from the Common Pleas that the plaintiffs in error were original defendants in a pauper cause, in which they were prosecuted by the defend-[*279] ants in error, to obtain a removal, from Harwich *to Brewster, of Mehitabel, the wife of Stephen Snow, and of Abigail and Clarissa, his two daughters, and to recover the damages occasioned to Harwich by their maintenance. The record contains the judgment for the defendants in error, and the reasons of the judgment, but not the facts on which the judgment was founded. To prevent the delay of sending the cause back to have…
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