Inhabitants of Fayette v. Inhabitants of Livermore
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions and motion for a new triad by the defendants to set aside a verdict rendered in favor of the plaintiffs for $120.17 for supplies furnished by contract to a pauper with whose support the defendants were chargeable. The facts and the law as stated at the trial sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtBarrows, J.
The alleged pauper, Julia A. White, is a woman sixty-two years old, an invalid since she was fifteen, usually eon-fined, to a dark room on account of an affection of the eyes, mostly dependent upon her father (with whom she lived in Livermore, for sixteen or seventeen years prior to 1843,) until his death in 1846, since which she has lived with her brother, George W. White, and been supported by him up to December, 1870, as one of his family. The family removed from Livermore to Dead River Plantation in 1843, prior to which time her father had conveyed to her brother what property he had in…
2Cited by3 opinions
- City of Augusta v. Inhabitants of AlnaSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1977
- Harrall v. WallisNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1883
- Inhabitants of the Town of Etna v. Inhabitants of the Town of PlymouthSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1966