Tessier v. Town of Lake Pleasant
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by defendant, the Town of Lake Pleasant, from an order of the District Court of Polk County, Frank Ives, J., made March 19, 1894, denying its motion for a new trial. The plaintiff Xavier Tessier was a resident of the Town of Lake Pleasant in Polk County. He was a renter on a farm there. Armenia De Mars came to his house in August, 1891, and made it her home and worked out most of the time as a servant in the houses of the neighbors.
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Appeal by defendant, the Town of Lake Pleasant, from an order of the District Court of Polk County, Frank Ives, J., made March 19, 1894, denying its motion for a new trial. The plaintiff Xavier Tessier was a resident of the Town of Lake Pleasant in Polk County. He was a renter on a farm there. Armenia De Mars came to his house in August, 1891, and made it her home and worked out most of the time as a servant in the houses of the neighbors. She left her trunk at TessiePs house and returned there in the intervals between her engagements at service for others. She was a distant relative of his…
1Opinion of the CourtCanty, J.
Plaintiff brings an action against the defendant town for the reasonable value and worth of the support of a pauper whom he claims had a settlement in said town, and whom the town refused and neglected to support. Plaintiff had a verdict, and, from an order denying a motion for a new trial, defendant appeals. The town is in Polk county, which has the town system of caring for the poor.
We are of the opinion that there was sufficient evidence that the alleged pauper was a pauper, had gained a settlement in the town, and sufficient evidence, on the other points raised, to sustain the verdict. At…
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