Portage County v. Town of Neshkoro
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Marquette county: E. G. Siebeoiíee, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for supporting John and Annie Bahn, paupers, who had a legal settlement in defendant town, but went therefrom to the town of Almond, in plaintiff county, in October, 1896, and within a few days thereafter required relief there at public expense, and received it.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Marquette county: E. G. Siebeoiíee, Circuit Judge. Action to recover for supporting John and Annie Bahn, paupers, who had a legal settlement in defendant town, but went therefrom to the town of Almond, in plaintiff county, in October, 1896, and within a few days thereafter required relief there at public expense, and received it. Within the time required by sec. 1512, Stats. 1898, the town of Almond complied with the conditions of such section as to rendering plaintiff liable to reimburse it for the expenses thus incurred, if the case was one…
1Opinion of the CourtMaeshall, J.
As shown in Milwaukee Co. v. Sheboygan, 91 Wis. 58, from territorial days it has been the policy of *522our laws that all poor persons, commonly known as paupers, and all helpless persons away from home in a place where they are neither residents nor have a legal settlement though not strictly paupers, standing in need of relief, shall have it at public expense. We took such system indirectly from Massachusetts, where it was adopted as early as 1193. Up to 1895 at least, the system treated persons entitled to relief as of four classes: (1) Every person in need of relief as a pauper in the…
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- Stevens v. WilliamsWisconsin Supreme Court · 1895
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