Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court July 15, 1815 (Inhabitants of Somerset v. Inhabitants of Dighton)

Wilde, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court. The only question referred, to the consideration of the Court, upon * the facts agreed in this case, is, whether the pauper, [ * 384 | for the expense of whose support the action is brought, had or had not her legal settlement in the town of Dighton, at the time when such expense was incurred ; the reasonableness of the charges, and due notice to the