Town of Topsham v. Town of Chelsea
Supreme Court of Vermont
Order of removal of a pauper. Heard on an agreed statement of facts, June Term, Orange County Court, 1886, Rowell, J., presiding. Judgment that the pauper was duly removed from the town of Topsham to the town of Chelsea.
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Order of removal of a pauper. Heard on an agreed statement of facts, June Term, Orange County Court, 1886, Rowell, J., presiding. Judgment that the pauper was duly removed from the town of Topsham to the town of Chelsea. Agreed statement: “It is admitted by the parties in this cause that the facts are sufficient on which to base a judgment for the plaintiff, in the usual form, unless the contrary hereinafter appears. ‘ ‘ The pauper became eighteen years of age at a time when her father lived and had his legal settlement in the town of Corinth, Vt. About that time her father and family moved…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Ross, J.
The contention is in regard to the last legal settlement of the pauper, Mary Folsom. When the pauper became of age her father’s legal settlement was in the town of Corinth. Soon after that date, the father moved with his family, including the pauper, into the defendant town and there acquired a legal settlement. If the pauper took this last settlement of her father, or if she acquired a legal settlement in Chelsea in her own right by more than seven years’ residence therein, unaided *222by the town, she was properly removed to the defendant town.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Town of Hardwick v. Town of PawletSupreme Court of Vermont · 1863
3Cited by3 opinions
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- Town of Craftsbury v. Town of GreensboroSupreme Court of Vermont · 1894
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