City of Fitchburg v. Inhabitants of Ashby

This is an action to recover for aid furnished to one Weatherbee, a pauper, whose settlement the plaintiff alleges to be in the defendant town. It appeared at the trial, that Weatherbee had no settlement in this Commonwealth, except flue acquired under the St. of 1874, c. 274; that he resided í¡ ve years in Groton prior to the year 1865, and paid the taxes assessed on him for three years within that time, being of the age of twenty-one years; that in March 1865 he removed to Ashby, and continued to reside there till April 1870, and paid the taxes assessed upon him for three years within that…