Inhabitants of Hanover v. Turner
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tins was an action of assumpsit, for sundry supplies furnished by the plaintiffs to Rebecca Turner, the defendant’s wife, for her necessary support and maintenance. Trial was had upon the general issue, before Wilde, J., at the last October term at Plymouth.
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Tins was an action of assumpsit, for sundry supplies furnished by the plaintiffs to Rebecca Turner, the defendant’s wife, for her necessary support and maintenance. Trial was had upon the general issue, before Wilde, J., at the last October term at Plymouth. The plaintiffs proved the defendant’s marriage with the said Rebecca, and that they lived together some years in the said town of Hanover, until about the year 1804 or 1805, when the said Rebecca left the defendant, and has since lived separate. They then proved that the defendant had grossly abused and cruelly treated his * said wife…
1Opinion of the CourtPutnam, J.
In this case, the defendant contends that he is not liable,— 1. Because he has been divorced, a vinculo matrimonii, before the supplies were made to the said Rebecca; and, 2. If the divorce was of no validity, the plaintiffs have their remedy against the town of Townsend, where the defendant is settled, and not immediately against him. By the statute of 1793, c. 59, § 9, overseers of *the poor are required to provide for the immediate comfort *199and relief of all persons residing or found in their town not belong" ing thereto, but having lawful settlements in other towns, when tl,vvv fall into…
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