Inhabitants of Stratford v. Sanford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action on the case. The declaration embraced two counts. The first count stated, That on the 5th of October, 182.5, Sally Bevans, then pregnant with child, and her three infant children, Edwin, John and Caroline, no one of whom had ever had any legal settlement in Stratford, or had ever been there, were residing in the town of Danbury, and being paupers, utterly destitute of the means of subsistence, were chargeable to and supported by that town; that the…
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This was an action on the case. The declaration embraced two counts. The first count stated, That on the 5th of October, 182.5, Sally Bevans, then pregnant with child, and her three infant children, Edwin, John and Caroline, no one of whom had ever had any legal settlement in Stratford, or had ever been there, were residing in the town of Danbury, and being paupers, utterly destitute of the means of subsistence, were chargeable to and supported by that town; that the defendants, who were inhabitants of the town of Danbury, and taxable therein, knowing the premises, but contriving and…
1Opinion of the Court
Hosmer, Ch. J.
The action of trespass on the case, which
the plaintiffs have brought, is a universal remedy given for all personal wrongs and injuries without force ; and in general, it is sustainable, whenever the plaintiff has suffered damages, by the wrongful and illicit conduct of the defendant.
That damage has arisen, in this case, from the defendants’ act, is a fact clearly stated ; and the only enquiry is, was the act injurious or wrongful ? It is not necessary, that it should be perpetrated through fraud, as in the argument was contended ; for this is one species of wrong only. Every…
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