Connecticut Hospital for the Insane v. Town of Brookfield
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover for the support of a pauper claimed to be legally chargeable to the defendant town, brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex County and tried to the court, Ralph Wheéler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The town of Bridgewater was also a party defendant, but obtained judgment in its favor upon demurrer to the complaint.
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Action to recover for the support of a pauper claimed to be legally chargeable to the defendant town, brought to the Superior Court in Middlesex County and tried to the court, Ralph Wheéler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The town of Bridgewater was also a party defendant, but obtained judgment in its favor upon demurrer to the complaint. The material allegations in the complaint, as to the town of Brookfield, were that Winifred Hall had been committed to the hospital on June 1st, 1886, as an…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
General Statutes, § 487, provides that when any pauper in any town shall be insane, a selectman of such town may apply to the Court of Probate of the district wherein such pauper resides, for his commitment to the State Hospital for the Insane, and that, if so committed, $2.50 a week, of the expense of his support, shall be paid by the town legally chargeable with his support.
Any pauper who is found in any town in a state of insanity is thus made a proper subject of such an application by a selectman of that town. It is of no consequence whether he has been there an hour or a year. If he be,…
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