Inhabitants of Newtown v. Inhabitants of Stratford
Supreme Court of Connecticut
THIS was an action of assumpsit, to recover the sum of 200 dollars, expended, by the town of Newtown, for the support of James R. Murray, a pauper. John James Murray was a native of the kingdom of Great-Britain; and never gained any settlement in this country.
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THIS was an action of assumpsit, to recover the sum of 200 dollars, expended, by the town of Newtown, for the support of James R. Murray, a pauper. John James Murray was a native of the kingdom of Great-Britain; and never gained any settlement in this country. In the year 1811, he married Hersey Sherman, then a legal inhabitant of the town of Newtown ; and immediately removed, with his wife, to the town of Stratford, hired a house there, and lived in it, until after the birth of their son, James R. Murray, in 1814. John James Murray then absconded, and left his wife and son residing in…
1Opinion of the Court
Hosmer, Ch. J.
The question in this case, is, whether the pauper has his settlement in Stratford. On the part of New-town, it is insisted, that he was settled in Stratford, by birth ; while Stratford contends, that he has a settlement with his mother in Newtown, by parentage.
The statute makes provision only in relation to a settlement, resulting from property, the act of the town, or the act of the pauper. Hence, for the determination of the question before us, recurrence must be had to the common law.
The first mode of acquiring a settlement, is, by birth / for, wherever a child is first known…
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