Dyer v. Hunt
Superior Court of New Hampshire
This was an action on the case for enticing away N. W. Tucker, an apprentice of the-plaintiff on the 21st January, 1823. The cause was tried at May term, 1830, upon the general issue, when it appeared in evidence, that N. W. Tucker, was the son of Nathaniel Tucker, of Norwich, in the State of Vermont; that he was horn in the year 1820 ; that his father and mother were settled in the town of Norwich, in the year 1822 ; that the father and mother, in that year separated, and…
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This was an action on the case for enticing away N. W. Tucker, an apprentice of the-plaintiff on the 21st January, 1823. The cause was tried at May term, 1830, upon the general issue, when it appeared in evidence, that N. W. Tucker, was the son of Nathaniel Tucker, of Norwich, in the State of Vermont; that he was horn in the year 1820 ; that his father and mother were settled in the town of Norwich, in the year 1822 ; that the father and mother, in that year separated, and have never cohabited together since that time ; that the apprentice, when his father and mother separated, went to live…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, C. J.
One question in this case is, whether the bringing of the pauper, for such the child was, into this state, was not illegal, and the indentures void on this ground. The letter of the statute imposes a penalty upon any person,
*404who knowingly brings and leaves, or with intent to leave, a pauper who has no settlement here, from another state, into any town in this state. But we are of opinion, that the intent of the statute was to prohibit the bringing of paupers into the state and leaving them, or with intent to leave them, a charge upon some town, or upon the state ; and that as there could have…
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- Commonwealth v. HamiltonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1810
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