Goodell v. Town of Mount Holly
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was a case brought to recover for the support of. alleged transient paupers. The case was referred, and the referees reported the following facts: On March 19, 1877, the wife of Rodolphus Briggs, who was also a niece of the plaintiff’s wife, was taken sick at the plaintiff’s house in the defendant town.
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This was a case brought to recover for the support of. alleged transient paupers. The case was referred, and the referees reported the following facts: On March 19, 1877, the wife of Rodolphus Briggs, who was also a niece of the plaintiff’s wife, was taken sick at the plaintiff’s house in the defendant town. On the 21st, the plaintiff notified Charles Tucker, one of the selectmen and overseers of the poor of defendant town, of her condition, and that the overseers must remove her from his house or pay for her keeping. In the afternoon of that day Tucker and Frederick Parmenter, who were a…
1Opinion of the Court
*426The opinion of the court was delivered by
Barrett, J.
No exception- was taken to the report in the County Court on the score that the sum assessed by the referees embraced subjects not recoverable within section 13, c. 20, Gen. Sts. The only question to be determined by this court is, whether the town is liable in this case under said section of the statute.
It is to be noticed that this is not a case between two towns, as are most of the reported cases, involving the right of one town to recover against another in which the poor person had a settlement. It is the duty of each town to support,…
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