Town of Oxford v. Town of Bethany
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of assumpsit, to recover for necessary expenses incurred in the support of Charlotte Lines, an infant child, claimed to be an inhabitant of the town of Bethany.
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This was an action of assumpsit, to recover for necessary expenses incurred in the support of Charlotte Lines, an infant child, claimed to be an inhabitant of the town of Bethany. The cause was tried, at New-Haven, January term 1848, before Iiinman, J. On the trial, it was admitted, that Zebulon Lines was a settled inhabitant of the town of Bethany, and died, on the 1st of November 1843. His widow, the mother of the pauper, on the 17th of December following, married one Tal-rnadge, a settled inhabitant of the town of Oxford ; in which town the pauper was born, on the 11th of July 1844, where…
1Opinion of the CourtWaite, J.
The only question in this case, is, whether the pauper, at her birth, took the settlement of her father, or that of her mother. f^The rule upon this subject, is, that a"' legitimate child takes the settlement of the father, if he have one; and, in this state, an illegitimate child takes that of the mother,^)
Hosmer, Ch. J.,
in delivering the opinion of the court, in the case of Newtown v. Stratford, says: IjJThe first enquiry is for the place of the father’s settlement, which, by operation of law, is the settlement of the child j| but if the father have no settlement, then that of the mother is…
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