Doggett v. Inhabitants of Dedham
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action of assumpsit for “ maintaining and supporting one Elias Haven, from the 20th day of May to the 23d day of July, 1802, he being a poor person, who had fallen into distress in said Dedham, and stood in need of immediate relief, of all which the said inhabitants had notice, and thereby became liable, and in con sideration thereof promised,” &c.
1Opinion of the Court
*506It was agreed, in a case stated for the opinion of the Court, that on the 20th day of May, A. D. 1802, Elias Haven, the pauper named in the declaration, was, by force of a judgment and execution in favor of one Enoch Harris, committed to the jail in Dedham ; that he was poor and unable to support himself; that he continued so a prisoner under the name and addition of Elias Haven, of Wrentham, in the county of Norfolk, trader, sixty-four days, in order to satisfy the said execution ; that said Haven was not an inhabitant of Dedham, but was a native of Wrentham, and had a legal settlement…
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