Inhabitants of Griswold v. Inhabitants of North-Stonington
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of assumpsit for the support of James McDaniels, a pauper, and Ruth, his wife. The cause was tried at New-London, October term, 1823, before Peters, J. McDaniels was a native of Ireland; and came into the colony of Connecticut, in 1774. In the course of the same year, he married, at Preston, his wife Ruth, who had a settlement in the colony.
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This was an action of assumpsit for the support of James McDaniels, a pauper, and Ruth, his wife. The cause was tried at New-London, October term, 1823, before Peters, J. McDaniels was a native of Ireland; and came into the colony of Connecticut, in 1774. In the course of the same year, he married, at Preston, his wife Ruth, who had a settlement in the colony. In 1775, he enlisted as a soldier in the continental army, and served the United States, as a soldier in that army, during the war of the revolution, as one of the quota of the town of Preston. Duiing this period, his wife and family…
1Opinion of the Court
Hosmer, Ch. J.
The award given in evidence, in this case, unless the general proposition can be supported, that the select-men have unlimited discretionary authority to act in all cases for the town, was unquestionably void. Had they authority, by virtue of which they were empowered to submit the claim on the town to arbitrament? It is not pretended, that they had any special powers to this effect ; and as little reason, is there to affirm, that they had any general authority. The expression, that the select-men are empowered “to take care of and order the prudential affairs of the town,”…
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