Inhabitants of St. George v. City of Rockland
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Agreed Statement. This was an action to recover for pauper supplies furnished Edith Wardwell, and was reported to the law court upon an agreed statement of facts. The regularity of the furnishing of the supplies was admitted. Due notices and denials were given and made.
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Agreed Statement. This was an action to recover for pauper supplies furnished Edith Wardwell, and was reported to the law court upon an agreed statement of facts. The regularity of the furnishing of the supplies was admitted. Due notices and denials were given and made. The only question in controversy was the settlement of the pauper, depending upon the following facts: — Edith Wardwell was born January 29,1890, and is the daughter of George W. Wardwell and Annie (Allen) Wardwell. The parents were married January 3, 1883. George W. Wardwell never had any pauper settlement in the State of…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, J.
The minor pauper in this case, at the time of her birth, had a pauper settlement in St. George because her mother’s settlement was there, her father having none in this State. (R. S. c. 24, § 1, cl. 2.) After her father’s death, her mother married one Pettee whose pauper settlement was in Rockland. By this second *45marriage the pauper settlement of the mother was at once changed from St. George to Rockland, the town of her new husband. (Ibid). Did that marriage also change the pauper settlement of her minor daughter (a legitimate child) from St. George to Rockland?
This question was expressly…
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