Inhabitants of Albany v. Inhabitants of Norway
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On agreed statement of facts. ’ Action of assumpsit to recover "for pauper supplies furnished by the plaintiff town to one Flossie Miller, a minor, whose pauper settlement was alleged to be in the defendant town. Plea, the genera] issue.
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On agreed statement of facts. ’ Action of assumpsit to recover "for pauper supplies furnished by the plaintiff town to one Flossie Miller, a minor, whose pauper settlement was alleged to be in the defendant town. Plea, the genera] issue. An agreed statement of facts was filed and the case reported to the Law Court for determination with the stipulation that if the Law Court should determine the pauper settlement of the said minor to be in the defendant town, then judgment should ' be for the plaintiff town ; otherwise for the defendant town. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKing, J.
This is an action to recover for pauper supplies furnished Flossie Miller, a minor. The only question in controversy is the settlement of the pauper. She was born in the plaintiff *175town June 5, 1894. In 1902 her father and mother were divorced, and her custody was decreed to the mother. At the time of the divorce neither her father nor mother had a pauper settlement in this State, and her father did not subsequently acquire one. After the divorce, May 22, 1902, her mother married Walter C. Merrill, who then had, and still has, his pauper settlement in the defendant town. Thereafter, on May 11,…
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