The King against The Inhabitants of Snape
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 25 January 1837 |
| Date | 25 January 1837 |
| Court | Court of the King's Bench |
English Reports Citation: 112 E.R. 106
IN THE COURT OF KING'S BENCH
the king against the inhabitants of snape. Wednesday, January 25th, 1837. Pauper was hired by D. to take care of his stock on certain marshes. It was agreed that he should have 12s. a week wages, and the keep of a cow, and he was to occupy a house on the marshes, rent free. The house had been hired by D. with the marshes, and was always appropriated to the person who looked after the stock there. Pauper was to go into the house at Michaelmas, and it was stipulated, at his desire, " that he should not be obliged to leave the house unless he had notice to quit at Michaelmas." He took charge of the stock, entered on the cottage in 1817, and resided there nine years, having no other employment than the charge of D.'s stock. The sessions, on appeal against an order of removal, found that the pauper had occupied the cottage as servant, not as tenant, and bad gained no settlement by such occupation ; and they sent a case, desiring the opinion of this Court, whether or not they had come to a proper decision. Held, that, on the above facts, the finding of the sessions was not necessarily wrong, and therefore that it ought not to be disturbed. On appeal against an order of two justices, whereby Abigail, widow of William Alexander, was removed from the parish of St. Osyth, in Essex, to the parish of Snape, in Suffolk, the...
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