City of Bangor v. Inhabitants of Wiscasset
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
ON agreed STATEMENT of facts tbe material portions of which appear in the opinion. Upon the question of settlement, cited: Glenburn v. Naples, 69 Maine, 68. « Gould died in September, 1876. By R. S., c. 24, § 34, Louisa Gould, or her estate, was liable to the city of Bangor for her support after that time. The guardian had a right to pay that indebtedness, tbe city had a right to appropriate so much as it had in its treasury, or to retain it to be appropriated by law.
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ON agreed STATEMENT of facts tbe material portions of which appear in the opinion. Upon the question of settlement, cited: Glenburn v. Naples, 69 Maine, 68. « Gould died in September, 1876. By R. S., c. 24, § 34, Louisa Gould, or her estate, was liable to the city of Bangor for her support after that time. The guardian had a right to pay that indebtedness, tbe city had a right to appropriate so much as it had in its treasury, or to retain it to be appropriated by law. Tbe law would appropriate it to the oldest indebtedness. The most noticeable feature of the authority relied upon in the…
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, C. J.
This is an. action to recover the expenses incurred by the plaintiffs for the support of Louisa Gould in the Insane Hospital where she was sent in 1865, and has ever since remained.
It is admitted that the residence and legal settlement of Abiel Gould, the husband, was, at the time of the commitment of his wife, in Bangor. After 1865 he resided a portion of the time in Wiscasset. In January, 1871, he purchased a farm there on which he resided and had his home, until April 14, 1876, when he sold the same, remaining, however, there till his death in the following Septepaber. During all this…
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