Delaware County v. Town of Delaware

I think it may be conceded that Shelp and his family had gained a settlement, and still retained it, in the town of Delaware, Sullivan county, when they applied for relief to the overseer of the town of Hancock (see section 40 of the Poor Law, Laws 1896, p. 149, c. 225) ; and still the said town of Delaware was-not liable to reimburse the county of Delaware for such relief. When such family became in need of public relief, it was actually residing in the county of Delaware. It had not been moved or enticed to move into such county as a “poor person”; but it had gone voluntarily into that…