Town of Wakefield v. Town of Alton
Superior Court of New Hampshire
This was an action of assumpsit for relief furnished to George Treferin and family, paupers, alleged to have their settlement is Alton. At the trial here, Feb. term, 1825, on the general issue, the plaintiffs attempted to prove the settlement of the paupers in Alton» by the taxation of said George seven years for his poll.
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This was an action of assumpsit for relief furnished to George Treferin and family, paupers, alleged to have their settlement is Alton. At the trial here, Feb. term, 1825, on the general issue, the plaintiffs attempted to prove the settlement of the paupers in Alton» by the taxation of said George seven years for his poll. Also by the fact, that the father of said George had owned real estate, of She value of $150, in said Alton, for which he had been taxed four years, previous to said George’s being twenty-one years of age. To shew, that said George had been taxed for his poll in 1812, the…
1Opinion of the CourtGreen, J.
The defendants predicate their motion for a new trial, on two grounds ; the first is, that the book of the selectmen of Alton, for the year 1812, containing the invoice of said George that year, with a sum carried out against his name, was submitted to the jury as evidence, from which they were to determine, whether he was in fact taxed that year for his poll in Alton ; whereas, upon the exhibition of the book, it was the duty of the court to determine, whether it furnished conclusive evidence of that fact or not.
This objection is, unquestionably, well founded ; and there is no doubt, that…
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