Town of Northfield v. Town of Brookfield
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an appeal from an order of removal of one Ellen Nichols, a pauper, her family and effects, from the town of North-field to the town of Brookfield. Trial by the court at the March Term, 1877, Redfield, J., presiding, upon the following agreed statement of facts: The pauper was legally married to Oliver F. Nichols, on August 17, 1872, and is still his wife, and the child, Forrest 0. Nichols, named in the warrant and order of removal, is the issue of said marriage.
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This was an appeal from an order of removal of one Ellen Nichols, a pauper, her family and effects, from the town of North-field to the town of Brookfield. Trial by the court at the March Term, 1877, Redfield, J., presiding, upon the following agreed statement of facts: The pauper was legally married to Oliver F. Nichols, on August 17, 1872, and is still his wife, and the child, Forrest 0. Nichols, named in the warrant and order of removal, is the issue of said marriage. Oliver P. Nichols is the son of Roswell S. Nichols, and has no settlement except a settlement in Middlesex-, derived from…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Barrett, J.
The pauper’s husband, whose settlement she took, had no settlement in his own right. He was twenty-one years old May 27, 1873. He had married August 17, 1872. About a month before that, his father had given him his time, and was not to claim any of his earnings nor pay any of his debts, and he did not, the son from that time ceasing to live with, or have any relation of subjection to, his father.
On the 19th of March, 1868, the father of the pauper’s hus*65band moved from Middlesex, where he had a settlement, to Brook-field, where he continued…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Town of Sherburne v. Town of HartlandSupreme Court of Vermont · 1865
3Cited by2 opinions
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- State v. McPhersonWashington Supreme Court · 1913