Town of Bridgewater v. Town of Roxbury
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover for supplies furnished to paupers claimed to belong to the defendant town; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of Litchfield County, and tried to the court before Warner, J. Pacts found and judgment rendered for the defendant. Appeal by the plaintiff. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
This is a complaint to recover for supplies furnished Esther A. Snyder and her three minor children.
The alleged pauper was born in the defendant town in 1858, of parents, Chauncey and Patty Wilmot, who at the time of her birth had their settlement in New Milford. Chauncey Wilmot died in 1858 in the town of Roxbury without having gained a settlement there. Soon after Patty, the mother, with her minor children, moved from the defendant to the plaintiff town and remained there until May, 1860, and then with her children returned to the defendant town, where she lived in a shanty built by her son…
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