County of Stearns v. Township of Fair Haven

Peterson, Justice.

This action is to determine the settlement of an alleged pauper and to recover for its support, claimed to have been paid and advanced by plaintiff on behalf of defendant. The alleged pauper is the illegitimate child of an unmarried mother, born on September 11, 1932, in defendant township, where the mother resided. Paternity of the child was never established because the father absconded.

On January 21, 1933, the probate court committed the child to an orphanage at St. Cloud as a dependent child. On September 17, 1935, the court made an order declaring the child a dependent,…