City of Somerville v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for supplies furnished Mary McCloskey from March 5, 1875, to April 10, 1875. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the plaintiff, to this court on appeal, on an agreed statement of facts in substance as follows: Mary McCloskey, being the wife of James McCloskey and more than twenty-one years of age, and not previously having a settlement in this Commonwealth, resided with him, after she arrived at said age, in Boston, for more than…
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Contract for supplies furnished Mary McCloskey from March 5, 1875, to April 10, 1875. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the plaintiff, to this court on appeal, on an agreed statement of facts in substance as follows: Mary McCloskey, being the wife of James McCloskey and more than twenty-one years of age, and not previously having a settlement in this Commonwealth, resided with him, after she arrived at said age, in Boston, for more than five years together, without either of them receiving relief as a pauper, and James McCloskey never derived or acquired a…
1Opinion of the CourtColt, J.
The plaintiff seeks to recover for relief furnished under the pauper laws to a married woman. In support of the action it is contended that a married woman, who, before her marriage, had no settlement in this Commonwealth, acquired one under the St. of 1874, c. 274, § 2, in Boston, by marriage and five years’ continuous residence in that city with her hus*575band, who had himself no settlement there or elsewhere in this state, and who acquired none by such residence.
The statute relied on declares that any woman of the age of twenty-one years, who resides in any place within this state for five…
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