Sitterly v. Murray

Zerah S. Westbrook, County Judge.

This case arose on a dispute between the appellant and respondent as the overseers of the poor of their respective towns over the settlement, under the poor laws, of Theodore Funk and family, who are at present residing in the town of Palatine.

Funk resided in the town of Minden, adjoining Palatine, in Montgomery county, for seventeen years continuously, until November, 1881, when he voluntarily removed to the town of Palatine, and in about a month thereafter he and his family became a town charge, and the overseer of the poor of that town was compelled to and…