Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1829

Inhabitants of Ware v. Inhabitants of Williamstown

Inhabitants of Ware v. Inhabitants of Williamstown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided September 25, 1829
25 Mass. 389

Inhabitants of Ware v. Inhabitants of Williamstown

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

The defect of the notice in the cases cited consisted in its generality. “ The family ” of A. B. is altogether indeterminate as to age, sex or number. It imports more than one, but gives no intimation of the provision necessary foi their support or removal. The notice in this case is limited to one object, “ the child of Miss Harriet Wright ” ; so that no risk would be incurred of taking the wrong person, for the notice imports that there was but one.1

Saying that the parent and her father were inhabitants ot Williamstown, is equivalent to saying they had their settlement there.

Judgment for the plain ti[js.

See Chicester v. Pembroke, 2 N. Hamp. R. 530; Dover v. Paris, 5 GreenLeaf. 430; Orange v. Sudbury, 10 Pick. 22; Uxbridge v. Seelconk, 10 Pick. 150.

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