Concord v. Merrimack County

The pauper, at the time the assistance was rendered, had his settlement in Warner, through his mother, whose settlement was there. In 1879, on a claim against the county by Warner for aid furnished to the mother, the county commissioners, on the representations of the selectmen of that town, adjudged that she had no settlement in Warner nor one in any town in the state, and that the claim be paid, although in truth she had a settlement in Warner. The plaintiffs claim that this adjudication is conclusive of the question of the present pauper’s settlement, into which no further inquiry can be…