Inhabitants of Middletown v. Inhabitants of Lyme
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of assumpsit, for supplies furnished to, and money laid out and expended for the support of Daniel Mother, and his wife and children, from the 1st of January 1806, to the 1st of January 1816, alleged to have been legally settled inhabitants of the town of Lyme, residing in Middletown, destitute and needing relief.
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This was an action of assumpsit, for supplies furnished to, and money laid out and expended for the support of Daniel Mother, and his wife and children, from the 1st of January 1806, to the 1st of January 1816, alleged to have been legally settled inhabitants of the town of Lyme, residing in Middletown, destitute and needing relief. The cause was tried at Haddam, October term, 1822, before Peters, J. Timothy Mather, the father of Daniel Mather, was born in Lyme, and had a legal settlement there, at the time of Daniel's birth, in the fall of 1773. In the summer of 1774, Timothy and his family,…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
This is an action of assumpsit for money expended, by the town of Middletown, in the support of Daniel Mather, claimed to be a poor inhabitant of the town of Lyme. It appears, by the motion, that the pauper is the legitimate son of Timothy Mather, and was born at Lyme, in 1773, where his father was then settled; that in 1774, Timothy Mather removed, with his family, including Daniel, to New-Hampshire, and there acquired a settlement; that in 1783, they returned to Lyme, and there resided more than twenty years, but gained no new settlement, unless by residence;—and the question now is,…
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- Inhabitants of Newtown v. Inhabitants of StratfordSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1821
- Norwich v. WindhamSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1790
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