Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Pompey v. Overseers of the Town of Laurens
New York Supreme Court
TWO Justices of the peace of Laurens made an order for the removal of Elizabeth Curry and her children, as paupers, from the town of Laurens to the town of Pompey, as the place of their last legal settlement.
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TWO Justices of the peace of Laurens made an order for the removal of Elizabeth Curry and her children, as paupers, from the town of Laurens to the town of Pompey, as the place of their last legal settlement. On an appeal, to jjje Couft of Sessions of Otsego county, the order was confirmed, and the appeal dismisséd. —’ “““ — “n- — At the hearing before the Sessions, it was admitted, that Samuel Curry, the bus-band, was formerly settled in the town of Pompey, ■ It appeared in evidence, that after such settlement, William Pettingal assigned to Curry, a lease in fee of sixty acres of land in the…
1Opinion of the CourtWoodworth, J.
The first objection is, that the order is defective : The statute .directs that the pauper be conveyed to the constable of the first town in the adjoining county, or in such other manner, by the nearestand most convenient route, as the justices shall think fit, to the place of his legal settlement. The order in this case directs the constable to convey the paupers frona and out of the town of Laurens, to the town of Lisbon, and from thence to the town of Pittsfield, and thence,, in the nearest direction, to the town of Pompey. Whether the route prescribed by the statute has been followed or…
2Cited by1 opinion
- Ex parte StoneNew York Supreme Court · 1824