Hopkinton v. Springfield
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Assumpsit, to recover money paid and expended for the relief of Nancy Hall, a pauper, alleged to have her settlement in Springfield. The pauper had the settlement of her father, Joseph Hall; and it appeared in evidence that he was an inhabitant of Springfield, from 1807 to 1813, inclusive, and was, during all that time, taxed there for his poll and estate.
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Assumpsit, to recover money paid and expended for the relief of Nancy Hall, a pauper, alleged to have her settlement in Springfield. The pauper had the settlement of her father, Joseph Hall; and it appeared in evidence that he was an inhabitant of Springfield, from 1807 to 1813, inclusive, and was, during all that time, taxed there for his poll and estate. The plaintiffs offered evidence, that in the year 1828 Cy-ras Hall, a son of Joseph, then resident in Hopkinton, and who had the settlement of his father, was relieved and maintained by the overseers of Hopkinton, and notice thereof given…
1Opinion of the CourtParker, C. J.
The plaintiffs made a demand upon the defendants for a sum of money, their right to it depending, among other things, upon the alleged settlement of Joseph Hall, in Springfield. The defendants, by their agents, paid the money demanded ; and this payment had a tendency to show an admission that the settlement of Hall was in Springfield, as the plaintiffs alleged, so far, at least, as that case was concerned. Can this act of the agents be admitted as evidence tending to show such admission, in another case between the same parties, involving that question ?
*330If the town of Springfield, in the…
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