Inhabitants of Bridgewater v. Inhabitants of Plymouth
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for expenses incurred in supporting the widow and five minor children of Homer Bryant. The question at issue was whether the first section of the St. of 1865, c. 230,* operated to give them a settlement with the defendants.
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Contract for expenses incurred in supporting the widow and five minor children of Homer Bryant. The question at issue was whether the first section of the St. of 1865, c. 230,* operated to give them a settlement with the defendants. At the trial in the superior court, before Rockwell, J., it was agreed that Bryant had no settlement in Massachusetts, and that the settlement of his widow was with the plaintiffs unless it was changed by force of that statute; that he was an inhabitant of Plymouth, where he had resided more than six months next previous to September 21; 1861, and was of full age,…
1Opinion of the CourtFoster, J.
The nature and extent of the change in the law of settlement made by St. 1865, c. 230, § 1, is the subject of controversy in the present case. The conditions of gaining a settlement under this act are, 1. that the soldier or sailor shall have been duly enlisted and mustered into the military service of the United States as a part of the quota of the city or town in which a settlement is claimed, under any call of the President of the United States during the recent civil war; 2. that he shall have continued in such service for a term not less than one year; 3. or else that he shall have died…
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