Inhabitants of New Braintree v. Inhabitants of Boylston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
On a case stated it appeared, that this was assumpsit for the support of Hastings Glazier, who was alleged to have his settlement in Boylston. Hastings was the son of Oliver Glazier. Oliver’s father gained a settlement and resided upon the territory which is now Boylston.
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On a case stated it appeared, that this was assumpsit for the support of Hastings Glazier, who was alleged to have his settlement in Boylston. Hastings was the son of Oliver Glazier. Oliver’s father gained a settlement and resided upon the territory which is now Boylston. Oliver was born there and lived there, paying 'taxes, after he was twenty-one years of age, long enough to have gained a settlement, if he derived none from his father, before he removed to the territory which is now West Boylston. Hastings was horn in the territory which is now Boylston. He was twenty-three years old when…
1Opinion of the Court
Morton J.
delivered the opinion of the Court. The father and grandfather of the pauper were inhabitants of Boylston, and he had a derivative settlement there which he still retains, unless he has acquired one elsewhere. His residence upon that part of the territory of Boylston which was included within the limits of West Boylston, will, by the 10th article of the 2d section of St. 1793, c. 34, give him a settlement in the latter town, unless the clause in the act of incorporation, which has been referred to, supersedes in1 this respect the general law.
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- Inhabitants of Great Barrington v. Inhabitants of LancasterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1817
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