Beetham v. Inhabitants of Lincoln
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
The plaintiff, an inhabitant of an unincorporated plantation, called Number One, adjoining upon the town of Lincoln, but on no other town, brought this action for the support of one Benjamin Crocker, from September 15, 1833, to April 22, 1834. It was not proved tliat tbis plantation was taxed in Lincoln.
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The plaintiff, an inhabitant of an unincorporated plantation, called Number One, adjoining upon the town of Lincoln, but on no other town, brought this action for the support of one Benjamin Crocker, from September 15, 1833, to April 22, 1834. It was not proved tliat tbis plantation was taxed in Lincoln. On the 26th of February, 1834, the plantation was incorporated into a town by the name of Chester, at which time Crocker was residing in the family of the plaintiff, on the plantation, and supported by him as a pauper. Prior to the incorporation, and subsequent thereto, unless his settlement…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was by
Weston C. J.
We are not satisfied, that the facts present a case, under the ninth section of the act for the relief of the poor, stat. of 1821, c. 122, as it does not appear, that the inhabitants of the unincorporated place, whore the pauper resided, were usually *139taxed in Lincoln. It is admitted, however, that the pauper had his legal settlement in that town. By the third section of that statute, it is made the duty of every town, to relieve and support all poor and indigent persons, lawfully settled therein, whenever they shall stand in need of relief. And in…
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