Inhabitants of Huntington v. Inhabitants of Oxford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
WRIT of error. • This was an action of assumfisit against the town of Huntington, to recover moneys expended by the town of Oxford, for the support of William Yeatcs, a pauper, and his family. A special verdict was found, stating the so facts. Yeates, the pauper, was born in Huntington, on the 2d of November, 1781, out of lawful wedlock, and a bastard, his mother then and still being an inhabitant of Huntington.
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WRIT of error. • This was an action of assumfisit against the town of Huntington, to recover moneys expended by the town of Oxford, for the support of William Yeatcs, a pauper, and his family. A special verdict was found, stating the so facts. Yeates, the pauper, was born in Huntington, on the 2d of November, 1781, out of lawful wedlock, and a bastard, his mother then and still being an inhabitant of Huntington. In May, 1798, in pursuance of a parol agreement between his mother and Lemuel Beardsley, of Oxford, and by consent of his mother, he went into the town of Oxford to learn with…
1Opinion of the CourtEdmond, J.
This is a question of settlement. From the facts stated in the special verdict it appears, that Yeaten was born in Huntington, and that his mother, at the time of his birth, was an inhabitant of Huntington, and so remains. Whether, therefore, the settlement of a bastard follows that of the mother, or is attached to the place where it happens to be bom, Yeates must be Considered as an inhabitant of Huntington; and that town must be liable for his maintenance, unless dis charged from that liability by the pauper’s gaining a settlement for himself in the town of Oxford, or elsewhere. *196Did Yeates…
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