Town of Dorr v. Town of Seneca

Citations

• 74 Ill. 101

Syllabus

<p>1. Paupers — where cha/rgeahle. A person who goes into a county or town and makes no arrangement for a home, and who has no home or fixed actual residence, but hires out and is employed by one or more persons, and so continues for six months, and then becomes a pauper, comes within the second class of persons named in the 15th section of the Pauper act of 1845, and is a charge upon such town or county.</p> <p>2. Residence — actual and apparent. Actual residence is determined by intention and acts, whilst apparent residence consists of acts without intention coupled with them.</p> <p>8. A person being unmarried and employed away from his former home, without any intention of returning, or of making the place where employed his actual, fixed and permanent residence, has no actual place of residence, but he has a residence at the place of such employment within the meaning of section.15 of the Pauper law of 1845.</p> <p>4. Evidence — to prove residence of pauper. In a suit where the question is as to the place of residence of a pauper, under the act of 1845, it is not improper to piove the statements of the pauper as to where she considered her home previous to the time she became a town charge.</p> <p>5. Nor is it error in such case to prove what was said by the brothers-in-law of the pauper, in reference to their making a bargain for her wages with those who employed her, as tending to show the relation of the parties, and whether the brothers-in-law regarded their houses as her home.</p>