Litchfield v. Londonderry
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Assumpsit, under tbe statute, to recover tbe sum of $109.83, for expenses incurred in tbe support of GTihnan Parker Melvin, an unemancipated minor son of G-ilman Melvin, alleged to be a pauper, having bis legal settlement in tbe defendant town, during tbe period of bis insanity, between August 29, 1857, and August 7, 1858. On trial the defendant denied that the alleged pauper was legally one, and claimed that on the 29th of August, 1857, when Gilman Melvin, the father,…
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Assumpsit, under tbe statute, to recover tbe sum of $109.83, for expenses incurred in tbe support of GTihnan Parker Melvin, an unemancipated minor son of G-ilman Melvin, alleged to be a pauper, having bis legal settlement in tbe defendant town, during tbe period of bis insanity, between August 29, 1857, and August 7, 1858. On trial the defendant denied that the alleged pauper was legally one, and claimed that on the 29th of August, 1857, when Gilman Melvin, the father, called upon Litchfield for the assistance then and afterwards furnished by that town to the alleged pauper, and for which…
1Opinion of the CourtFowler, J.
The plaintiffs brought their suit to recover of the defendants the expense of removing an alleged pauper to the Asylum for the Insane, and supporting him there during the period of his insanity. By the provisions of the statute, the selectmen of Litchfield were authorized to send any insane pauper supported by that town to the asylum, and thereupon the town might recover the expense of the support of such pauper, at the asylum, of the town chargeable with his suppQrt. Rev. Stat., ch.' 9, see. 13. Under the ruling of the court, of the correctness of which there may be some doubt, but which was…
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