Town of Leicester v. Town of Brandon
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit for the expense of supporting a pauper. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June term, 1891, Addison county, Thompson, J., presiding. The court directed a verdict for the defendant, to which the plaintiff excepted. The case appears in the opinion. The pauper was not a transient. Middlebury v. Waltham, 6 Vt. 200; Rockingham v. S-firingfield, 59 Vt. 521; Ma-coon v. Berlin, 49 Vt. 13 ; Goodell v. Mt.
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Assumpsit for the expense of supporting a pauper. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June term, 1891, Addison county, Thompson, J., presiding. The court directed a verdict for the defendant, to which the plaintiff excepted. The case appears in the opinion. The pauper was not a transient. Middlebury v. Waltham, 6 Vt. 200; Rockingham v. S-firingfield, 59 Vt. 521; Ma-coon v. Berlin, 49 Vt. 13 ; Goodell v. Mt. Holly, 51 Vt. 423 ; New Haven sr. Middlebury, 63 Vt. 399; Stone v. Glover, 60 Vt. 651.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
TYLER, J.
This suit is brought to recover of the defendant the amount expended by the plaintiff for the support of a pauper.
*545The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that in May, 1883, while the pauper and her father’s family were being supported by the defendant town, the defendant’s overseer of the poor made a contract with one Dow, who resided in the plaintiff town, by which the pauper, then about ten years old, was to work for Dow for her board and clothes, Dow reserving the right to have her removed at any time and the defendant reserving the right…
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