Inhabitants of Dalton v. Inhabitants of Hinsdale
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action of the case brought to recover the expenses of maintaining Joanna Baxter, a pauper alleged to have her settlement in Hinsdale. A verdict was found for the plaintiffs, on a trial upon the general issue, before Sedgwick, J., subject to the opinion of the Court upon the facts reported by the judge.
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This was an action of the case brought to recover the expenses of maintaining Joanna Baxter, a pauper alleged to have her settlement in Hinsdale. A verdict was found for the plaintiffs, on a trial upon the general issue, before Sedgwick, J., subject to the opinion of the Court upon the facts reported by the judge. And it was agreed that the verdict might be amended by the Court, as to the amount of the damages, or a general verdict be entered for the defendants, according to the opinion of the Court. Such of the facts reported as went to the decision of the cause, are recited by the chief…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
From the report it appears that the town oí Dalton was incorporated by the statute of 1783, c. 64, comprising lands not before included in any corporate town ; that Hinsdale has been since incorporated, including lands in the towns of Pa tridgefield and Dalton, by statute of 1804, c. 7 ; that when Dalton was incorporated, the pauper, Joanna Baxter, lived in the part of that town since Hinsdale, and was there settled ; and that after-wards. and before Hinsdale was incorporated, she removed to another part of Dalton, where she dwelt when Hinsdale was incorporated, and where she continued to…
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