Town of Cheshire v. Town of Burlington
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit, to recover for money expended for the support of a pauper. Harmon Wooding and his wife removed to the town of Burlington from the town of Cheshire, where they were legally settled, in the year 1846. Soon after he abandoned his wife, who was subsequently returned to and supported as a pauper by the town of Cheshire.
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Assumpsit, to recover for money expended for the support of a pauper. Harmon Wooding and his wife removed to the town of Burlington from the town of Cheshire, where they were legally settled, in the year 1846. Soon after he abandoned his wife, who was subsequently returned to and supported as a pauper by the town of Cheshire. After this, and while his wife was receiving support from the town of Cheshire, Wooding lived with another wóman in Burlington, and for more than six years supported himself there without help from the town, and no taxes during that time were demanded of him; but he…
1Opinion of the Court
Sanford J.
The pauper for whose support this suit was instituted, had a legal settlement with her husband in Cheshire, prior to, and at the time of their removal into Burlington in 1846, and that settlement of course continued and is still in Cheshire, unless it has been lost by reason of the acquisition of a different one in some other place. A settlement once acquired is never changed but by the acquisition of another in its stead.
The pauper was a married, woman. Her husband was all the time residing in this state. And though he had left her society and formally declared his intention to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hapgood v. WhitmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1816
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