Town of Bethlem v. Town of Roxbury
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This case came before the superior court, by a submission of the parties under the statute of 1848 ; (Stat, 109, 110. § 211.) and was there reserved for the advice of this court. The case agreed upon was as follows. Esther A. Lucas was born in Roxbury, in this state, in the year ; and was a settled inhabitant of that town.
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This case came before the superior court, by a submission of the parties under the statute of 1848 ; (Stat, 109, 110. § 211.) and was there reserved for the advice of this court. The case agreed upon was as follows. Esther A. Lucas was born in Roxbury, in this state, in the year ; and was a settled inhabitant of that town. She removed into the state of New-York, in the year 1810, and cohabited there with Dean Bishop, as her husband, to whom she was never legally married, for the reason that he had a wife then living in Connecticut; and during her residence in the state of New-York, she had an…
1Opinion of the CourtEllsworth, J.
The paupers in question are the legitimate children of Sheldon Bishop, and have never had a settlement in this state, in their own right. Their settlement will follow that of their father. Their father was born in Stamford, in the state of New-York, of Esther A. Lucas, an unmarried woman, then living in said town of Stamford; but she had never gained a settlement in that state, and had never lost her settlement by birth, which she had in the town of Rox-bury, in this state.
In the argument of the case, the counsel for both parties have proceeded upon the ground, that in 1811, when Sheldon…
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