Palmer v. Vandenbergh
New York Supreme Court
This was an action of assumpsit, tried at the Columbia circuit, in September, 1827, before the Hon. Wm. A. Duer, one of the circuit judges.
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This was an action of assumpsit, tried at the Columbia circuit, in September, 1827, before the Hon. Wm. A. Duer, one of the circuit judges. In October, 1816, a written contract was entered into between the plaintiff, residing in the town of Hillsdale, in the county of Columbia, and one John Thompson, then an overseer of the poor of the town of Coxsackie, in the county of Greene, for the support and maintenance of a pauper chargeable to Coxsackie, by which the plaintiff was to receive $45 per annum for such support; the first annual payment to be made on the 1st December, 1817. This contract…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Savage, Ch. J.
It was objected on the trial that the contract should not be given in evidence, unless the p’aintiff shewed an original order of one or more justices of the county, adjudging the pauper to be chargeable upon the town of Coxsackie, and ordering the overseers to provide for and maintain him. The 25th section of the act for the relief and settlement of the poor, (1 R. L. 287,) directs, that when any poor person belonging to any city or town shall apply. for relief to an overseer, such overseer shall apply to a justice of the peace, and the justice and overseer shall…
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