Inhabitants of Rockport v. Inhabitants of Searsmont
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Action brought by the plaintiff town to recover the expenses incurred by it in committing to the Insane Hospital at Augusta one Grace E. Farnham, an insane person, whose pauper settlement was alleged to be in the defendant town, and also to recover the sums paid by the plaintiff town for the support of the said Grace E. Farnham in said Hospital. The said Grace E. Farnham was twice committed to said Hospital.
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On report. Action brought by the plaintiff town to recover the expenses incurred by it in committing to the Insane Hospital at Augusta one Grace E. Farnham, an insane person, whose pauper settlement was alleged to be in the defendant town, and also to recover the sums paid by the plaintiff town for the support of the said Grace E. Farnham in said Hospital. The said Grace E. Farnham was twice committed to said Hospital. The first commitment was discovered to be illegal from the fact “ that no physician appeared and testified before the municipal officers in regard to the insanity of Grace E.…
1Opinion of the CourtSpear, J.
This case comes up on report and involves the collection of expenses incurred by the town committing against the town of pauper settlement for the commitment of Grace E. Farnham to the Insane Hospital at Augusta and for support therein. It is not in controversy that the town of Rockport undertook to commit Grace E. Farnham to the Hospital and that the town of Searsmont is the. place of her pauper settlement. Whether the plaintiff town succeeded so as to legally charge the defendant town with the expenses of commitment and support thereafter to the date of the writ, is the first question in…
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