County of Tompkins v. County of Ontario
New York Supreme Court
This is an action to charge the defendant with the support of a poor person, who was assisted by the superintendent of the poor of the plaintiff from November 6 to December 2, 1914— the plaintiff claiming that such relief was properly chargeable to'the county of Ontario, from which county he had come to the county of Tompkins. All notices required by law to fix liability were duly given. On the trial a jury was waived and the evidence was taken before the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Davis, Rowland L., J.
The facts in this case are comparatively simple and are undisputed. John D. Coakley, a single man about thirty-five years of age, was born in Bradford county, Penn., and lived there until he was about twenty-one, when his people had all died, and he had no relative in Pennsylvania except an aunt who resided near Athens. Soon after he became twenty-one years of age he was in Sayre for a year or two and then came into the state of New York and was around Geneva, Canandaigua and Rochester, and worked in that locality and elsewhere for about twelve years. He would go back for…
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