Town of Bristol v. Town of New Britain
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover a sum of money claimed to have been paid under a mistake, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County and tried to the court, Oase, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Action to recover a sum of money claimed to have been paid under a mistake, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County and tried to the court, Oase, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The complaint as amended, is as follows: “ 1. In the fiscal year 1894 the plaintiff paid to the defendant $80 for expenses incurred by defendant for the support of Mrs. John C. Russell and her family, paupers residing in and receiving support from the defendant town; in the year 1895 plaintiff paid for…
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, J.
The principal question in this case is whether the court, upon the facts found, erred in rendering judgment for the plaintiff, and the decision of this question depends upon the proper construction of the finding of facts.
The defendant says the import of the finding is this: Bristol, when notified by New Britain that the paupers belonged to Bristol and that they had applied to New Britain for aid, assumed their support, and made the selectmen of New Britain the agents of Bristol to expend for their support money furnished by Bristol to its agents for this express purpose.
In this view of the…
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