Belknap County v. Carroll County

The question is purely one of statutory interpretation (Wilson v. County, 72 N. H. 112, 113, and cases cited), and the material part of the pertinent statutory provision (P. L., c. 107, s. 10, as amended by Laws 1933, c. 137, s. 3), reads as follows: “The county which shall have relieved any county pauper within one year, or in which he shall have last resided not less than one year, within the last five years, shall be liable to the county in which he may afterward be relieved, if he has not resided in the latter county above three months at the time of his first relief.”

The “first relief”…