Burlington v. Swanville
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion and exceptions. Assumpsit upon an account annexed, for the support of William Hurd from December 7, 1871, to May 1, 1872. It was not denied that all proper statute notices and replies were given.
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On motion and exceptions. Assumpsit upon an account annexed, for the support of William Hurd from December 7, 1871, to May 1, 1872. It was not denied that all proper statute notices and replies were given. The pauper was married in Swanville in 1839, lived thei’e over twelve years, then went to Waldo for about three years, and returned to Swanville in 1855, where he remained till 1859, when he came to Burlington, staid there six months, then to Lowell for eighteen months, then to Lincoln for about the same length of time, and then to Enfield. Ills wife bore him five children, all born in…
1Opinion of the CourtWAt.ton, J.
In our judgment there was no ruling or instruction of the presiding judge of which the defendant can justly complain.
The first requested instruction, namely, that “if the pauper once established his residence in Lincoln, and has never since abandoned bis wife or family, and no pauper supplies have been furnished, their continued residence in that town for more than five years consecutively gave him a settlement in that town” — was rightfully withheld, because it fails to discriminate between the abandonment of one’s wife or family and a change of residence from one town to another. One may…
2Cited by1 opinion
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