Inhabitants of Portland v. Inhabitants of Bangor
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Agreed Statement of Facts, from Nisi Prius, Howard, J., presiding. This was an action brought to recover for supplies furnished by the plaintiffs to Betsey Brown and her daughter, Almedia Brown, as paupers, alleged to have had their legal settlement in Bangor, at the time, the supplies, were furnished. The general issue was pleaded and joined. Legal notice and answer were admitted.
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Agreed Statement of Facts, from Nisi Prius, Howard, J., presiding. This was an action brought to recover for supplies furnished by the plaintiffs to Betsey Brown and her daughter, Almedia Brown, as paupers, alleged to have had their legal settlement in Bangor, at the time, the supplies, were furnished. The general issue was pleaded and joined. Legal notice and answer were admitted. It was also admitted that Betsey Brown was once the wife of Timothy Brown, and that he had a settlement in some town other than Bangor, in this State; that, in 1842, a divorce between them was decreed, on her…
1Dissent
Rice, J.,
gave the following dissenting opinion:—
By § 13, of c. 28, stat. of 1840, it is provided, that any two or more overseers in a town having a work-house, may, by order under their hands, commit to such house the persons described in the first section of the same chapter, to wit:—
1st. All poor and indigent persons that are maintained by or receive alms from the town.
2d. All persons who, being able of body, and not having estate or means otherwise to maintain themselves, refuse or neglect to work.
3d. All persons who live a dissolute and vagrant life, and exercise no ordinary calling, or…
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