Town of Wilmington v. Town of Somerset
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from an order of removal of one Thankful Sawtell, a pauper, from the town of Wilmington to the town of Somerset. Plea, that the pauper was unduly removed, and trial by the court at the September Term, 1860, Redeield, Ch. J., presiding, upon the following agreed statement of facts : “ It is agreed between the parties that the pauper, Thankful Sawtell, was born in Brattleboro in 1792, and with her father, Richard Sawtell, removed to Somerset in 1795.* That Richard…
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Appeal from an order of removal of one Thankful Sawtell, a pauper, from the town of Wilmington to the town of Somerset. Plea, that the pauper was unduly removed, and trial by the court at the September Term, 1860, Redeield, Ch. J., presiding, upon the following agreed statement of facts : “ It is agreed between the parties that the pauper, Thankful Sawtell, was born in Brattleboro in 1792, and with her father, Richard Sawtell, removed to Somerset in 1795.* That Richard Sawtell,- the father, came to reside in Somerset on that part of the town annexed to Wilmington by the act of annexation…
1Opinion of the CourtPierpoint, J.
The important question in this case depends upon the construction of the 9th clause of the 1st section of the 17th chapter of the Compiled Statutes, (General Statutes, p, 132,) relating to the settlement of paupers, in connection with the facts stated in the-exceptions. In said clause it is provided that “upon the division of any town, or the annexation of a part of one town to another town, every person having a legal settlement therein, but being absent at the time of such division or annexation, and not having acquired a legal settlement elsewhere, shall have his legal settlement in that…
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