McCaffrey v. Town of Shields
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Marquette County. Action to recover for the board and lodging of ope Caroline Kooch, alleged to be a pauper for whose maintenance the defendant town is chargeable.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Marquette County. Action to recover for the board and lodging of ope Caroline Kooch, alleged to be a pauper for whose maintenance the defendant town is chargeable. The testimony tends to prove that the said Caroline became a resident of the defendant town in June, 1879; that she was a single woman, without means, and supported herself in whole or in part by her labor; that in February following she went into another town, Montelloj and made a criminal complaint before a justice of the peace against her brother and his wife, residing in the town of Shields,…
1Opinion of the CourtLyon, J.
1. The alleged pauper, Caroline Kooch, had no legal settlement in the town of Shields, or in any other town of this state. The learned circuit judge ordered a nonsui t on the ground that public charity did not become necessary in her case until she was in Montello, and that, although her residence was in Shields, that town was not liable under the statute, and no act or agreement of its supervisors could render it liable. The evidence in respect to the condition and situation of Caroline is somewhat meager and unsatisfactory, but we think it tends to show that; she was a person of weak mind,…
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