Inhabitants of Groton v. Inhabitants of Shirley
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This action was case against the defendants to recover the expenses of maintaining James Bartlett, a pauper, alleged to have his settlement in Shirley. The cause was tried on the general issue, before the chief justice. at the sittings here after the last October term On the trial, it was admitted that the pauper’s settlement wai derived from his father, Samuel Bartlet; and that if the father’s settlement was in Shirley, the plaintiff must recover.
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This action was case against the defendants to recover the expenses of maintaining James Bartlett, a pauper, alleged to have his settlement in Shirley. The cause was tried on the general issue, before the chief justice. at the sittings here after the last October term On the trial, it was admitted that the pauper’s settlement wai derived from his father, Samuel Bartlet; and that if the father’s settlement was in Shirley, the plaintiff must recover. On this point it was proved that Samuel, the father, before and on the 25th of January, 1765, lived in Stow, in that part of it then called…
1Opinion of the Court
The action being continued nisi, the opinion of the Court was delivered at the following November term in Suffolk, by
Parsons, C. J.
It is settled, that when a new town is made out of parcels of two or more towns, including the inhabitants living on the parcels, all the inhabitants, having settlements in the towns in which they dwelt, acquire a settlement in the new town by the act of incorporation. But the defendants’ counsel have endeavored to distinguish from this case the case where a part of an existing town is detached, and annexed to another existing town.
We are not satisfied that there…
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