City of Portland v. City of Bangor
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion. Assumpsit for alleged pauper supplies. Harriet S. Bay, the alleged pauper,"was committed to the Portland workhouse in 1871, under a warrant signed by two overseers of the poor, on an ex parte hearing, on the ground that she was an able bodied, dissolute vagrant, exercising no lawful business and liable to become chargeable to' the city. This action was brought for her board while in the workhouse for two months ending September 17, 1871, at $2.50 per week.
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On motion. Assumpsit for alleged pauper supplies. Harriet S. Bay, the alleged pauper,"was committed to the Portland workhouse in 1871, under a warrant signed by two overseers of the poor, on an ex parte hearing, on the ground that she was an able bodied, dissolute vagrant, exercising no lawful business and liable to become chargeable to' the city. This action was brought for her board while in the workhouse for two months ending September 17, 1871, at $2.50 per week. The verdict was for the plaintiffs for $24.49 ; the defendants filed a motion to have it set aside, as against law and…
1Opinion of the CourtWalton, J.
It was decided in Angeline Gr. Nott’s case, 11 Maine, 208, that the'statute of this state which declares that two or more overseers of the poor of any town or city, may, by a writing under their hands, commit to the work house, “all persons able of body to work, and not having estate or means otherwise to *121maintain themselves, who refuse or neglect so to do, and all such as live a dissolute, vagrant life, and exercise no ordinary calling or lawful business, sufficient to gain an honest livelihood; and all such as spend their time and property in public houses to the neglect of their proper…
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