Supreme Judicial Court of Maine January 1, 1880 (Inhabitants of Dexter v. Inhabitants of Sangerville)

Symonds, J.

The person, to recover the expenses of whose support at the insane hospital this action is brought, at the time of such support had obtained a legal settlement in Sangerville by having her home there for five successive years without receiving aid as a pauper, unless the facts attending her commitment to the hospital on September 23, 1874, and her stay there till April 27, 1876, were