Inhabitants of Poland v. Inhabitants of Wilton
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Exceptions from the Court of Common Pleas, Whitman C. J. presiding. The action was brought to recover the amount expended by the plaintiffs in furnishing supplies to one Jonathan Reed, alleged to have fallen into distress in Poland, and to have had a settlement in Wilton.
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Exceptions from the Court of Common Pleas, Whitman C. J. presiding. The action was brought to recover the amount expended by the plaintiffs in furnishing supplies to one Jonathan Reed, alleged to have fallen into distress in Poland, and to have had a settlement in Wilton. The writ was dated May 15, 1837, and a part of the supplies were furnished in January and February, 1836, and the residue in the winter of 1837. On March 29, 1836, the plaintiffs gave notice to the defendants, that Jonathan Reed, a pauper of that town, had become chargeable in Poland, and on April 7, following, the…
1Opinion of the Court
*365The opinion of the Court was drawn up by
Shtsplet J.
The case finds that Jonathan Reed was able to support himself without a wife and children, but he had a wife and children in his dwelling, and under his care and protection although not mentioned, in the notice to the defendants.
' The defendants contend, that Reed was not a pauper or liable to be removed as such.
The cases of Green v. Buckfield, 3 Greenl. 136, and Hallowell v. Saco, 5 Greenl. 143, decide, that when supplies are properly furnished to any member of a family thus situated, with whose support the head of it is chargeable, he…
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