Inhabitants of Berkley v. Inhabitants of Somerset
This text of 16 Mass. 454 (Inhabitants of Berkley v. Inhabitants of Somerset) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Stephen Marvel, the pauper’s father, acquired a settlement in Swansey, by residing there a year after he came of age, without being warned to leave the town. His son followed his settlement; and by the provision of the act incorporating Somerset, that town * being made liable for the support [ * 456 j of all who derived their settlement from a residence in that part of Swansey, the pauper is chargeable to the defendants.
Defendants defaulted.
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