Inhabitants of Harrison v. Portland
Inhabitants of Harrison v. Portland
Opinion of the Court
Two pauper suits included in one report. The question is whether the settlement of Emma E. Smith, an insane pauper, is in Portland or Lewiston.
We think it is in Portland. Her father’s settlement was there when she arrived of age, and the evidence fails to show that she has since acquired one elsewhere. It is true that her father has since acquired a settlement in Lewiston. And it is true that a non compos mentis daughter, who continues to reside with her father, and to be supported by him, will follow his ■settlement, notwithstanding she is more than twenty-one years of age. But Emma has not continued to reside with her father since she arrived of age, nor has she been supported by him. Her mother died before she arrived of age, and her father married again; and Emma, with her father’s consent, went to live with her brother in Massachusetts. Her brother kept a store in Natick, and was postmaster; and Emma assisted him some in the store, and acted as delivery clerk in the post-office, and assisted his wife some in the house. She was there when she arrived of age. And never since that time has her father’s home been her home. At one time, she and a younger brother established a home for themselves, and her father left his wife
In Harrison v. Portland, Judgment for plaintiff.
In Harrison v. Lewiston, Judgment for defendant.
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