Town of New Hartford v. Town of Canaan
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit to recover for supplies furnished paupers; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of Litchfield Count}', and tried to the court before Warner, J. Judgment for the plaintiffs and appeal by the defendants. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
This is a suit to recover for supplies furnished one LaFayette Parrott and his wife and minor children, alleged paupers of the defendant town.
The first question is, whether under the statute of 1878 (Acts of 1878, p. 317, see. 8,) the persons referred to, at the time when the assistance was rendered, were “poor and unable to support themselves,” and whether the support furnished was “ necessary ? ” The finding of the court, “ that at the times when the plaintiff furnished the said aid, medicine and medical attendance for the said Parrott family, they had not sufficient means or credit to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Town of Bridgeport v. Town of TrumbullSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1871
3Cited by6 opinions
- Yudkin v. GatesSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1891
- Town of New Hartford v. Town of CanaanSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1886
- Town of Vernon v. Town of EllingtonSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1885
- Monroe County v. AbegglenSupreme Court of Iowa · 1905
- Opinion No. Oag 14-78, (1978), Wisconsin Attorney General Reports1978
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