Inhabitants of Lowell v. Inhabitants of Newport
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On EXCEPTIONS AND MOTION. Assumpsit, for supplies furnished from April, 1872, to August, 1873, to one Mary F. Lawrence, a pauper, about seventeen years of age, whose alleged settlement was in the defendant town, $91. The necessity of the supplies and all proper notices and replies were admitted; the only question being one of her settlement, which was that of Haskell Lawrence, her father, who it was admitted had a settlement derived from his father, Abel Lawrence, ih…
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On EXCEPTIONS AND MOTION. Assumpsit, for supplies furnished from April, 1872, to August, 1873, to one Mary F. Lawrence, a pauper, about seventeen years of age, whose alleged settlement was in the defendant town, $91. The necessity of the supplies and all proper notices and replies were admitted; the only question being one of her settlement, which was that of Haskell Lawrence, her father, who it was admitted had a settlement derived from his father, Abel Lawrence, ih Newport, in 1837. Abel in that year removed to Corinna, where he ever after resided, his son, born February 28, 1827, being…
1Opinion of the CourtDaNEORTh, J.
This is an action under the pauper law ; and the question at issue is the settlement of the pauper.
The supplies sued for were furnished Mary F. Lawrence, who has the settlement of her father, Haskell Lawrence, who had a settlement in the defendant town in 1837, derived from his father Abel Lawrence. It appears that subsequent to 1837 and while Haskell, the son, was yet a minor, the father gained a settlement in Corinna. The principal question arising under the exceptions, is whether the son followed this newly acquired settlement of the father.
The plaintiffs contend that he did not, on the…
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