Town of New Haven v. Town of Huntington
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of assumpsit, to recover for the support of Sybil Johnson, the wife of Richard W. Johnson, and their two minor children, Henry and Charles, and for the support of Charlotte Treadwell, an illegitimate daughter of Sybil Johnson, and her three illegitimate minor children.
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This was an action of assumpsit, to recover for the support of Sybil Johnson, the wife of Richard W. Johnson, and their two minor children, Henry and Charles, and for the support of Charlotte Treadwell, an illegitimate daughter of Sybil Johnson, and her three illegitimate minor children. The cause was tried before the superior court, in New Haven, at the October term, 1851. Upon the trial, it was admitted, that Hannah Johnson, the mother of Richard W. Johnson, and a colored woman, had her original settlement in the town of Huntington. In the year 1804 or 1805, when about seven years of age,…
1Opinion of the CourtWaite, J.
It was admitted, on the trial of this cause, that the original settlement of Hannah Johnson was in the town of Huntington. That settlement must remain, until it is lost, by the acquisition of a new one, and was communicated to her son Richard W. Johnson, at his birth, unless he derived a different one, from his father. Hebron v. Colchester, 5 Day’s R., 175.
At the time of her marriage, her husband, Titus Johnson, was a slave, belonging to a man living in Cazenovia, in the state of New York. Unless her settlement was changed, in consequence of that marriage, it remained as it originally was, in…
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