Town of Norwich v. Hyde
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. This was an action of assumpsit, brought originally before a justice of the peace, by Augustus Hyde, keeper of the county gaol in Norwich, against the town of Norwich, to recover for support furnished, by the plaintiff, to James Hazard and John Blake, prisoners in such gaol, from the 8th of October to the 27th of November, 1827. The declaration stated, That on the 8th of October 1827, in the town of Norwich, Hazard and Blake were severally tried for and convicted…
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IN ERROR. This was an action of assumpsit, brought originally before a justice of the peace, by Augustus Hyde, keeper of the county gaol in Norwich, against the town of Norwich, to recover for support furnished, by the plaintiff, to James Hazard and John Blake, prisoners in such gaol, from the 8th of October to the 27th of November, 1827. The declaration stated, That on the 8th of October 1827, in the town of Norwich, Hazard and Blake were severally tried for and convicted of a breach of the peace in.that town, before Asa Roath, Esq., a justice of the peace for New-London county, and were…
1Opinion of the CourtWilliams, J.
The question arising upon this record, is simply, whether the town of Norwich is liable to the gaoler for the support of a person not an inhabitant, — who has been convicted of a breach of the peace in that town, and ordered to pay a *533fine to the treasury of the town of Norwich, and finally discharged by one of the select-men of the town of Norwich.
The support of the poor in every community must be by voluntary aid, or under positive enactments of the legislature. A town, a"s such, is under no more obligation ' to support (he poor in it, than a county, or parish, or school district. That it is…
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