Town of Lyme v. Town of East-Haddam
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. This was an action of assumpsit for the support of Lewis Matson, Cynthia Matson, his wife, and their four minor children, brought, originally, by the town of East-Haddam against the town of Lyme, before Samuel A. Peters Esq., a justice of the peace for New-London county, at his dwelling-house in Colchester; there being no justice of the peace in either of the towns of Lyme or East-Haddam, who could lawfully try the cause ; and the town of Colchester, in which…
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IN ERROR. This was an action of assumpsit for the support of Lewis Matson, Cynthia Matson, his wife, and their four minor children, brought, originally, by the town of East-Haddam against the town of Lyme, before Samuel A. Peters Esq., a justice of the peace for New-London county, at his dwelling-house in Colchester; there being no justice of the peace in either of the towns of Lyme or East-Haddam, who could lawfully try the cause ; and the town of Colchester, in which justice Peters resided, being one which next adjoined the town of East-Haddam, the plaintiffs in this suit. At the time and…
1Opinion of the CourtChurch, J.
1. The bill of exceptions in this case, is nothing more than a recapitulation of the whole evidence, for the purpose of inducing the court to determine, whether upon the whole, the justice of the peace was not mistaken in his conclusions. This way of presenting questions of law for review, has been repeatedly reproved, by this court. It was urged, that from the facts stated, they were entirely irrelevant, and inadmissible as evidence to prove, that Matson and his children were paupers. Whether they were paupers, was a question of fact, not of law. If, as was claimed, by the defendants below,…
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