Sheboygan County v. Town of Sheboygan Falls
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Sheboy-gan county: Michael Kiewan, Circuit- Judge. Action for support furnished hy the city of Plymouth between December 8, 1900, and November, 1903, to one Christina Bade, a pauper, claimed to have legal settlement in tlie defendant town.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Sheboy-gan county: Michael Kiewan, Circuit- Judge. Action for support furnished hy the city of Plymouth between December 8, 1900, and November, 1903, to one Christina Bade, a pauper, claimed to have legal settlement in tlie defendant town. Prior to 1898 Christina Bade had made her home with her married son for a number of years in Sheboy-gan Falls, receiving no aid from the public, but being self-supporting and interested in some property in hands of her son, and undoubtedly had her legal settlement in that town. The son died in February, 1898,…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
We have been unable to avoid the conclusion that the questions presented in this case have not been fully tried or decided. Christina Bade’s legal settlement in She-boygan Falls had undoubtedly been extinguished by her two years of residence outside of that town, unless, during each year thereof, she had been, in, some degree at least, supported as a pauper. Scott v. Clayton, 51 Wis. 185, 8 N. W. 171. Mrs. Bade was, confessedly, not a pauper in fact, being capable of earning her own living, and having, at least during the first year, some money; but this fact is not conclusive against the…
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