Inhabitants of Mendon v. Inhabitants of Bellingham
This text of 18 Mass. 153 (Inhabitants of Mendon v. Inhabitants of Bellingham) 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
A pauper cannot have two settlements m this Commonwealth at the same time. As soon as these paupers gained a new settlement in Plantation No. 4, which was then a part of this Commonwealth, they lost entirely their old settlement in Bellingham.
The acts relating to the separation of Maine make no provision respecting paupers. The legislature might perhaps have considered it proper for the State to support them under circumstances like the present; but it is more probable, that lathing was thought about the subject.2
Plaintiffs nonsuit.
Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI
Cite This Page — Counsel Stack
18 Mass. 153, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/inhabitants-of-mendon-v-inhabitants-of-bellingham-mass-1822.