Booth v. County of Hillsborough
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
This was a petition for an order of court to remove a pauper in said Goshen from this county to the county of Hillsborough.
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This was a petition for an order of court to remove a pauper in said Goshen from this county to the county of Hillsborough. The petition alleges that the pauper has no legal settlement, nor any relation chargeable for her support within this county, and that, on or about the first day of September, 1861, by the order and direction of persons assuming to be Selectmen of the town of New Boston, in the county of Hillsborough, the pauper was brought from said county of Hillsborough into the town of Goshen and there left, where she has ever since been supported as a pauper, at the expense of said…
1Opinion of the CourtNesmith, J.
The 10th section of chap. 67 of the Compiled Laws was intended to prescribe a remedy, where it is made to appear that a county, by its agents, having a poor and indigent person, whom they know to be thus poor and indigent, and for whose support such county may be chargeable by law, shall willfully bring into, and leave such poor person in, some other county, or attempt so to do, for the evident purpose of relieving themselves from the expense and charge of his maintenance.
The 11th section of said act appears to have been intended to furnish a remedy, by giving authority to the court to return…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Inhabitants of Greenfield v. CushmanMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1820