Inhabitants of Wilbraham v. Inhabitants of Sturbridge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
In this action, which was brought to recover for expenses incurred by the plaintiffs, in the support of certain paupers alleged to have their settlement in Sturbridge, the defendants offered to prove, in defence, that the paupers in question, if they ever had a settlement in Sturbridge, afterwards, viz., in 1792, acquired a settlement in Stafford, in the state of Connecticut.
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In this action, which was brought to recover for expenses incurred by the plaintiffs, in the support of certain paupers alleged to have their settlement in Sturbridge, the defendants offered to prove, in defence, that the paupers in question, if they ever had a settlement in Sturbridge, afterwards, viz., in 1792, acquired a settlement in Stafford, in the state of Connecticut. The judge of the court of common pleas, Byingtm, J., before whom the case was tried, rejected the evidence; and the verdict being for the plaintiffs, the defendants excepted.
1Opinion of the CourtFletcher, J.
The only exception insisted on at the hearing of this case was that taken to the ruling of the court of common pleas, excluding the evidence offered to show that the paupers had a settlement in the state of Connecticut. *62This is the only point which the court is called on to consider and decide. The simple question presented is, whether a settlement gained in a town in this commonwealth is lost by gaining one in a town in another state; in this instance in the state of Connecticut. The precise point has been so fully settled by express adjudications of this court, that it cannot now be…
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