Norwich v. Windham
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for sending one Mary Laughton, a pauper, who had one child and was pregnant with another, to the town of Norwich; whereby said town was put to much cost, etc. in their support, etc. Special issue to the court.
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Action for sending one Mary Laughton, a pauper, who had one child and was pregnant with another, to the town of Norwich; whereby said town was put to much cost, etc. in their support, etc. Special issue to the court. The facts were — Said Mary, before her intermarriage with said Laughton, was Mary Spicer, a legal inhabitant of the town of Norwich; that in A. D. 1785 she married said Laughton, an Irish foreigner, and moved with him to Wind-ham, and there resided until January A. D. 1789 and had said child born in Windham, and was likely to have another, and said Laughton went off and left her,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Said Mary was legally settled in said town of Harwich before her intermarriage with said Laughton a foreigner, who had no settlement in this country; her settlement thereby was suspended, but not lost; upon his going off or dying her right of settlement was revived; for a person doth not lose a settlement until another is gained in some other place.
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