Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1824

Inhabitants of East Bridgewater v. Inhabitants of Bridgewater

Inhabitants of East Bridgewater v. Inhabitants of Bridgewater
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided October 15, 1824
19 Mass. 572

Inhabitants of East Bridgewater v. Inhabitants of Bridgewater

Opinion of the Court

The Court held, on the authority of the cases cited for the plaintiffs, that the original settlement of Nathan Leach was not lost by' his removing into what is now North Bridge-water ; and that Eliphalet derived a settlement from his father, which he did not lose by removing into what is now East Bridgewater.1

Defendants defaulted.

Bridgewater v. West Bridgewater, 9 Pick. 55 ; 2 Dane’s Abr 414 ; North Bridgewater v. East Bridgewater, 13 Pick. 303.

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