Supreme Judicial Court of Maine July 1, 1853 (Inhab'ts of Cornville v. Inhab'ts of Brighton)

Shepley, C. J.

—It became a material question at the trial, whether Benjamin N. Berry had gained a settlement in the town of Cornville by a residence of five successive years. Witnesses had been introduced in defence, who had testified, that they saw Berry at work at Joseph Barker’s in Cornville in 1831, and at various other times during the following years till the fall of 1836.