Inhabitants of Shirley v. Inhabitants of Watertown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tr¡s was an action of assumpsit, for the support of the widow Sarah White, and Lucy, her daughter, from Nov. 9, 1801, to June 8, 1802. The action was tried before the late Chief Justice Dana, at the October term, 1805, and a verdict found for the plaintiffs. The defendants moved for a new trial, on the insufficiency of a certain warning or caution made by the selectmen of Newton, in the year 1765, pursuant to the statutes then in force.
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Tr¡s was an action of assumpsit, for the support of the widow Sarah White, and Lucy, her daughter, from Nov. 9, 1801, to June 8, 1802. The action was tried before the late Chief Justice Dana, at the October term, 1805, and a verdict found for the plaintiffs. The defendants moved for a new trial, on the insufficiency of a certain warning or caution made by the selectmen of Newton, in the year 1765, pursuant to the statutes then in force. If that warning was legal and sufficient, the verdict was to stand; but if the Court should be of opinion that it was insufficient, the verdict was to be set…
1Opinion of the Court
* Sewall, J.
If this had been an order of the Ses- [ * 324 ] sions, it would undoubtedly have been bad for its uncer;ainty and generality; but I think that the warning of William White prevented his acquiring a settlement in Newton; and the wife and child could have no settlement separate from him. On the •vhole, I am for entering judgment upon the verdict.
Sedgwick, J.
This action is brought to recover the amount of expenses incurred by the plaintiffs in the support and maintenance of two paupers. The jury have given a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs, and we are now moved to set aside this…
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