Ligonia v. Buxton
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Assumpsit for the support of a pauper named Mary Brazier, the supplies furnished commencing March 28, 1821.. In a case stated to the Court, it was agreed that her settlement was in Buxton, unless she had gained another by her supposed marriage with one Joseph Brazier in the year 1814, the validity of which was the only question in the case.
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Assumpsit for the support of a pauper named Mary Brazier, the supplies furnished commencing March 28, 1821.. In a case stated to the Court, it was agreed that her settlement was in Buxton, unless she had gained another by her supposed marriage with one Joseph Brazier in the year 1814, the validity of which was the only question in the case. At the time of this supposed marriage he resided in Palermo and she in Montville, in the county of Lincoln ; and the marriage was solemnized by Isaac Iiall, an elder of the Baptist church, at his dwelling house in the plantation of Knox in the county of…
1Opinion of the Court
Mellen C. J.
In deciding this cause it is not necessary to consider all the objections and arguments which were urged on the trial. It is very clear that the marriage of the pauper with Joseph Brazier is void, according to the statute of 1786, ch. 3, Mr. Hall was not a stated and ordained minister of the gospel, within the meaning of that act. This is plain from the words of the act, and so it was decided in the case of Comfort Smith cited by the plaintiffs’ counsel. And if he had been a settled and ordained minister in Knox, the marriage was void, because solemnized in that town, in which…
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