Inhabitants of Madison v. Inhabitants of Fairfield

This case was reserved for final decision by this court on a report of the legally admissible evidence. The action is for the support of one William Elwood Bassett, and his wife and children, who derive their settlement from him as paupers. Inquiry is quite narrow in its scope. The decisive question is whether, under the statutes of this State, Bassett had his settlement in the defendant town of Fairfield, when, on the ninth day of August, 1930, he fell into distress in Madison, and received, for himself and family, the pauper supplies in suit.

William Elwood Bassett attained full age on the…