Inhabitants of Bath v. Inhabitants of Bowdoin
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a writ of error brought to reverse a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of this county, respecting the settlement and support of a pauper.
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This was a writ of error brought to reverse a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of this county, respecting the settlement and support of a pauper. The suit was originally commenced before a justice of the peace, from which it was removed to the Common Pleas, who stated the following facts as the foundation of the judgment afterwards rendered, viz.: — “ That Mary Binkley, the pauper, was born in the town of Brunswick, July 19th, 1763; that in 1772, Gideon Binkley purchased an estate of freehold, in the town of Bath,† and removed with his family (Mary, the pauper, being one) into the said…
1Per curiam
The proceedings whicli this writ of error is brought to reverse, were instituted at the suit of the inhabitants of Bowdoin, who demanded payment for supplies furnished to Mary HinJdey, a pauper, and also her removal to Bath, where they insisted that she was settled.
The only question before us upon this record is, whether the paiiper had a legal settlement in Bath. If she had, the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas is right, and must be affirmed ; if she had not her legal settlement in Bath, the judgment must be reversed.
The only facts which tend to show a settlement in Bath, are, that her…
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