Inhabitants of Ellsworth v. Inhabitants of Waltham

An action brought under Sec. 71, Chap. 19, E. S., to recover for supplies and medical attendance furnished an indigent family during quarantine. The verdict was for the plaintiff. The ease is before this court on defendant’s exceptions and a motion for a new trial on the usual grounds.

*215It is admitted that the supplies were furnished and the quarantine was in the interest of public health, and the only question involved is the pauper settlement of Charles A. Emerson, who, it is admitted, had a derivative settlement in the defendant town.

In a previous action, 122 Maine, 356, the city of…