Inhabitants of Topsham v. Inhabitants of Lewiston
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
ON EXCEPTIONS. An notion for pauper supplies, furnished by the plaintiffs to the wile and children of Charles E. Coombs, who derived his settlement from his father, Charles E. Coombs, Senior.
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ON EXCEPTIONS. An notion for pauper supplies, furnished by the plaintiffs to the wile and children of Charles E. Coombs, who derived his settlement from his father, Charles E. Coombs, Senior. The opinion states the material facts. cited: Greene v. Windham, 13 Maine, 225 ; Brewer v. lAn-nceus, 36 Maine, 4-30; Knox v. Waldoborough, 3 Maine, 455; Gorham v. Canton, 5 Maine, 266 ; Richmond v. VassaTboro’, 5 Maine, 396; Exeter v. Brighton, 15 Maine, 60; Wayne v. Greene, 21 Maine, 357 ; Jefferson v. Washington, 19 Maine, 293 ; Brewer v. Eddington, 42 Maine, 549; North Yarmouth v. West Gardiner, 58…
1Opinion of the CourtVirgtN, J.
The case assumes that if the pauper had a settlement in Lewiston, he derived it from his father: and if the father had one there he acquired it by the sixth mt>do — by "having his homo there five successive years without receiving, directly or indirectly, supplies as a pauper.” It. S., c. 24, § 1, par. vi; and there is no pretense that he received any supplies as a pauper during the period ho resided there.
By their verdict for the plaintiffs, the jury must have found that the pauper’s father had an established "home,” and not a mere temporary residence, in Lewiston where he resided with .his…
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