In Re Settlement of Gadbaw

1 Reported in 3 N.W.2d 490. This is a proceeding to determine the legal settlement of a pauper for poor relief purposes.

The petition is dated December 30, 1939. Service was had on January 2, 1940. It does not definitely appear when the pauper applied for poor relief, but apparently it was about October 15, 1939.

1. The pauper had his settlement somewhere in Todd county, which operates under the township system. The case is governed by Mason St. 1927, § 3161, which so far as here material provides that:

"Every person, except those hereinafter mentioned, who has resided one year continuously in…