Fremont v. Sandown
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
From Rockingham Circuit Court. The following facts, having been reported by a referee, are, by agreement of the parties, submitted to the superior court for such judgment thereon as they may order: “ The action is assumpsit, commenced on March 7, 1874, for the support of Mrs. Maggie French and her three minor children, alleged to be paupers and to have their settlement in said town of Sandown.
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From Rockingham Circuit Court. The following facts, having been reported by a referee, are, by agreement of the parties, submitted to the superior court for such judgment thereon as they may order: “ The action is assumpsit, commenced on March 7, 1874, for the support of Mrs. Maggie French and her three minor children, alleged to be paupers and to have their settlement in said town of Sandown. It appeared in evidence that the said Maggie French and her three minor children, aged five, three, and two years, were in said town of Fremont on November 13, 1873, and from that day until the date of…
1Opinion of the Court
FROM ROCKINGHAM CIRCUIT COURT. The case does not show that Mrs. French and her three children (the oldest five and the youngest three years old) did not constitute one family at the time they were relieved by the overseers of the poor of Fremont, nor that she had other children than the three mentioned in the notice. If inferences were to be drawn, the inference certainly would be that the mother and three young children did constitute one family; and, inasmuch as she was married in 1869, and the oldest child is five years old, there is, to say the least, no ground for inferring that she had…
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- New-Boston v. DunbartonSuperior Court of New Hampshire · 1841
- Barnstead v. StraffordSuperior Court of New Hampshire · 1835
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