Brown v. Inhabitants of Orland
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Exceptions from Nisi Prius, Appleton, J., presiding. Assumpsit. The action is brought to recover for supplies furnished to one Shubael Brown, whose legal settlement was in Bucksport, but who had fallen into distress and needed immediate relief in Orland. The material facts are all stated in the opinion of the Court.
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On Exceptions from Nisi Prius, Appleton, J., presiding. Assumpsit. The action is brought to recover for supplies furnished to one Shubael Brown, whose legal settlement was in Bucksport, but who had fallen into distress and needed immediate relief in Orland. The material facts are all stated in the opinion of the Court. The defendants offered in evidence a copy,- duly certified by the town clerk of Bucksport, .of a bill of sale of a yoke of oxen from Shubael Brown to the plaintiff, and proved that the plaintiff said he had left the original with the town clerk to be recorded, and that he had…
1Opinion of the Court
Tenney, J. —
This action was brought under R, S., c. 32, § 48, to recover for supplies furnished by the plaintiff, an inhabitant of Orland, to Shubael Brown, a.pauper, having his lawful settlement in the town of Bucksport, but at the time, when the supplies were furnished, he was residing at the house of the plaintiff in the town of Orland.
Evidence was introduced by the plaintiff tending to prove, that the pauper had been at the plaintiff’s house, sometime before any claim was made for compensation, for what the plaintiff had done in his support. But upon the pauper being taken sick, the…
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