Town of Salem v. Town of Lyme
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit, for supplies furnished to paupers claimed to belong to the defendant town. Upon the trial to the jury, it became a material inquiry whether John D. Clark, one of the paupers, had acquired a settlement for himself in the town of Lyme, by commorancy therein.
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Assumpsit, for supplies furnished to paupers claimed to belong to the defendant town. Upon the trial to the jury, it became a material inquiry whether John D. Clark, one of the paupers, had acquired a settlement for himself in the town of Lyme, by commorancy therein. It was agreed that he became twenty-one years old on the 12th of April, 1825, and continued unmarried and without any family of his own until 1883. The plaintiffs claimed that his established residence and home, from the autumn of 1820 until his marriage in 1833, was at all times at’his father’s house,'in Lyme, (his father…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, J.
This case depends upon the construction which should be given to the 6th section of the act providing for the support of paupers, Rev. Stat., tit. 42,) in respect to the meaning of that part of the section which provides that any inhabitant of any town in the state shall gain a settlement in the town to which he may have removed, “ if he shall reside in such town for the full term of sis years, successively, after his removal into such town, and shall, during the whole of said time, have supported himself and his family, if any he have, without his or their becoming chargeable to such town,…
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