City of Bangor v. Inhabitants of Frankfort
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. This was an action for pauper supplies, furnished one Abiatha Grant, amounting to $123.87. The case was tried by the court without a jury.
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On exceptions. This was an action for pauper supplies, furnished one Abiatha Grant, amounting to $123.87. The case was tried by the court without a jury. It was admitted that seasonable notices and denials were given, and that Abiatha took a settlement derived from his father in Frankfort j and after his majority, moved to Bangor and acquired a domicil there in 1871. The court found that the pauper, having a family and domicil in Bangor in 1872, shipped as a seaman on a voyage to Boston, with the intention of returning to his family, but while there was convicted of crime and sentenced to the…
1Opinion of the CourtVirgin, J.
Assumpsit for pauper supplies. The pauper had a derivative settlement in Frankfort, which continued there, unless he acquired another. B. S., c. 20, § 3.
The main question before the presiding justice who tried the case without the aid of the jury — was — whether the pauper acquired a settlement in Bangor by having "his home therein five successive years” between 1877 and 1884 when he was released from his eleven years’ imprisonment in Massachusetts, whither he went for a temporary purpose with the intention of returning to his family.
*128The presiding justice found that, the pauper continued to…
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