Lisbon v. Lyman
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Assumpsit, for the support of the pauper wife and children of one Volney C-. .Verdict for the plaintiff. Motion of the defendant for a new trial. The question was whether Volney had a settlement in Lyman, by derivation from his father Isaac.
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Assumpsit, for the support of the pauper wife and children of one Volney C-. .Verdict for the plaintiff. Motion of the defendant for a new trial. The question was whether Volney had a settlement in Lyman, by derivation from his father Isaac. Lyman was divided into the two towns of Lyman and Monroe, July 13, 1854. There was evidence tending to show that Isaac resided in Lyman from 1833 to 1851. Volney was born July 29, 1833 ; removed with his father in 1851 to the part of Lyman, which is now Monroe, where his father has ever since resided; has been absent from his father’s house most of the…
1Opinion of the CourtDoe, J.
I. The dwelling place of Isaac, at the time of the division of the town cf Lyman, was in the part then made a separate town by-the name of Monroe; and the defendant claims that Volney, being a minor, could then have had no other dwelling place than that of his father, within the meaning of the Eevised Statutes relating to the settlement of paupers as affected by the division of towns.
Upon the division of a town, the division of the pauper settlements existing in the town, is made by the geographical line by which the territory of the town is divided. The rule prescribed by the statute for…
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