Inhabitants of Searsmont v. Inhabitants of Thorndike
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Assumpsit for pauper supplies to the amount of twenty-seven dollars furnished Sybil Byan whose settlement was alleged to be in the defendant town.
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On report. Assumpsit for pauper supplies to the amount of twenty-seven dollars furnished Sybil Byan whose settlement was alleged to be in the defendant town. The opinion states the material facts. cited: Sumner v. Sebee, 3 Maine, 223 ; Lowell v. Newport, 66 Maine, 78 ; Parsonsfleld v. Kennebunhport, 4 Maine, 47 ; Knox v. Waldoboro, 3 Maine, 455; Fayette v. Livermore, 62 Maine, 229 ; Brewer v. Linnaeus, 36 Maine, 428; Ghicopee v. Whately, 6 Allen, 509 ; Bipley v. Hebron, 60 Maine, 395. When the pauper went to Massachusetts in 1866 or 1867 her father surrendered all right to the care and…
1Opinion of the CourtDaneortH, J.
An action to recover for supplies furnished a pauper, and the only question raised is whether the pauper had a settlement in the defendant town. The case is before the court upon a report. The witnesses are the father and stepmother of the pauper, and though there are some verbal differences in their statements of the facts, there is no real conflict in their testimony.
It appears that the father had lived in the town of Waldo for fifty years previous to 1869, when he removed to the defendant town and remained there until 1879, and then moved with his family into the plaintiff town where he…
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