Inhab. of Milo v. Inhab. of Kilmarnock
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
| This was assumpsit for expenses incurred by the plaintiffs in J the support of Lucinda Boobar, a pauper, and was submitted for1 the decision of the Court upon the following agreed statement oí facts.
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| This was assumpsit for expenses incurred by the plaintiffs in J the support of Lucinda Boobar, a pauper, and was submitted for1 the decision of the Court upon the following agreed statement oí facts. The pauper is the illegitimate and non compos child of Hannah Boohar, and was born in 1818, in an unincorporated place, where her mother then lived with her father, Benjamin Boohar, which place was, in 1824, incorporated into a town called Kil-marnock, Hannah at that time being 21 years of age. At the time of the birth of the pauper, the mother had no settlement in any incorporated town or…
1Opinion of the Court
Parris J.
By statute, chap. 122, sect. 2, it is provided that illegitimate children shall .follow and have tho settlement of their mother, at the time of their birth. This is tho precise language of the statute of Massachusetts upon the same subject, in full force at the time of the organization of the government of this state. Statute of Massachusetts of 1793, chap. 34, sect.-2. And it has been judiciously settled that the meaning of this provision is, that the settlement which the mother had at the time of the-birth of tho child shall be the settlement of the child until it shall gain a new…
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