Cook v. Town of Morris
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover for support of an alleged pauper, brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County and tried to the court, Robinson, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion. The court erred in holding that the probate record was not conclusive evidence of the facts therein recited.
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Action to recover for support of an alleged pauper, brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County and tried to the court, Robinson, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion. The court erred in holding that the probate record was not conclusive evidence of the facts therein recited. A record is equally conclusive whether pleaded or offered in evidence. Bell v. Raymond, 18 Conn., 95. A judgment at law or decree in equity, of a court having jurisdiction,…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, C. J.
This is an action brought to recover for support furnished by the plaintiff to one Sarah A. Bostwick, a settled inhabitant of the defendant town, and alleged in the complaint to be a pauper in need of support. The plaintiff at the time the support was furnished was, and for some considerable time before had been, the legally appointed conservator of the person and estate of the said Sarah, appointed by the Court of Probate in the District of Sharon.
The Superior Court found that at the time when the support was furnished, for which this action was brought, the said Sarah A. Bostwick was not a…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Peters v. Town of LitchfieldSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1867
- Lynch v. HallSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1874
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