Town of Scott v. Town of Clayton
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Crawford County. Plaintiff appealed from a compulsory judgment of nonsuit. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Tayloe: “ This action was brought to recover -money alleged to have been expended by the town of Scott for the support of certain indigent persons residing in that town, who had no settlement therein, but had a settlement in the town of Clayton.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Crawford County. Plaintiff appealed from a compulsory judgment of nonsuit. The case is thus stated by Mr. Justice Tayloe: “ This action was brought to recover -money alleged to have been expended by the town of Scott for the support of certain indigent persons residing in that town, who had no settlement therein, but had a settlement in the town of Clayton. The poor persons for whom the support was furnished, were a mother and her two children. There is no dispute in the evidence that in January, 1875, these persons had a settlement in the town of Clayton. In…
1Opinion of the Court
Tayloe, J".
The record does not disclose upon what ground the learned circuit judge ordered the nonsuit; but in this court it is insisted by the learned counsel for the respondent that the nonsuit was properly ordered upon three grounds: first, upon the ground that the evidence does not show that the persons relieved by the appellant town were paupers and *189entitled to assistance as such; second, that the evidence does not show that they had a legal settlement in the defendant town when snch assistance was furnished by the plaintiff; and third, that the plaintiff never gaye the town a sufficient…
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