Milwaukee County v. Village of Stratford

The proceeding is by Milwaukee county to recover from Marathon county for relief furnished by the former to a poor person having a legal settlement in the village of Stratford in Marathon county.

The action is purely statutory and, if the facts of the case bring the plaintiff within the terms of the statute, the county is entitled to recover. The statutes most directly involved are:

Sec. 49.04, Stats., which imposes on counties the furnishing of relief to poor persons therein who have no legal settlement therein.

Sec. 49.03 (2), Stats., which provides that where the poor person relieved has a…