Watson v. Inhabitants of Cambridge
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Assumpsit for the support of one Venus Whittemore, ninety-eight weeks, at one dollar fifty cents per week. At the trial, which was had upon the general issue, at the sittings here, after the last October term, before Putnam, J., the plaintiff proved that the said Venus was ninety years old, and that she was formerly the slave of Samuel * Whittemore, deceased, who was an inhabitant of Cambridge; that her settlement was in Cambridge, and that she liad been supported by the…
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Assumpsit for the support of one Venus Whittemore, ninety-eight weeks, at one dollar fifty cents per week. At the trial, which was had upon the general issue, at the sittings here, after the last October term, before Putnam, J., the plaintiff proved that the said Venus was ninety years old, and that she was formerly the slave of Samuel * Whittemore, deceased, who was an inhabitant of Cambridge; that her settlement was in Cambridge, and that she liad been supported by the plaintiff. The plaintiff also proved, by two of the overseers of the town of Cambridge, that she had applied to them to…
1Opinion of the Court
* Parker, C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court. The plaintiff’s action is founded upon the thirteenth section of the statute of 1793, c. 59, providing for the relief and support of the poor, &c., which enacts, among other things, that “ every town and district shall be holden to pay any expense which shall be necessarily incurred for the relief of any pauper, by any inhabitant not liable by law for his or her support, after notice and request made to the overseers of the said town or district, and until provision shall be made by them.”
The report finds that notice was given verbally to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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