Town of Clinton v. Town of Westbrook
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit for supplies furnished to a pauper; referred by the Superior Court to a committee who found the following facts: The pauper, Jane E. Thompson, for the support of whom this action is brought, is the widow of Daniel Thompson.
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Assumpsit for supplies furnished to a pauper; referred by the Superior Court to a committee who found the following facts: The pauper, Jane E. Thompson, for the support of whom this action is brought, is the widow of Daniel Thompson. Daniel Thompson was born in Durham, in this state, in the year 1811. In 1885 he married Jane E. Thompson, with whom he lived in Durham until 1842, when they removed to the town of Westbrook, where they resided till 1852. It is conceded that they acquired a settlement in the town of West-brook. March 15th, 1852, they removed to Durham and bought a small farm there…
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
The question in this case arises under the statute, (tit. 50, ch. 1, sec. 4,) which provides that a settlement may be gained by an inhabitant of another town in this state “ if he shall have been possessed, in his own right, in fee, of real estate of the value of one hundred dollars, free from any incumbrance, in the town .to which he may have removed, for the term of one year • during his continuance therein.”
The plaintiff claims that the pauper gained no settlement in Durham for two reasons; first, that there was not such a residence or continuance therein, for the term of one year while…
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