Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Hartland v. Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Williamstown
Supreme Court of Vermont
THIS was an appeal from an order of two justices of the peace, for the county of Windsor, made at Hartland, in said county, on the Sth day of May, 1824, for the removal of Daniel Badger, Phebe Badger his wife, and Aaron Badger and Bucina Badger their children, as paupers, from said town of Hartland, to said Williamstown. The cause was tried at the December term of Windsor county court, on the issue of “unduly removed.”
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THIS was an appeal from an order of two justices of the peace, for the county of Windsor, made at Hartland, in said county, on the Sth day of May, 1824, for the removal of Daniel Badger, Phebe Badger his wife, and Aaron Badger and Bucina Badger their children, as paupers, from said town of Hartland, to said Williamstown. The cause was tried at the December term of Windsor county court, on the issue of “unduly removed.” The town of Hartland proved, on the trial, that the pauper, Daniel Badger, moved to and commenced his residence in Williamstown, in the month of August, A. D. 1805, and…
1Opinion of the Court
*251The opinion of the Court was pronounced by
Skinner, Chief J.
If the order of removal of 1817, was void, the paupers’ residence is in Williamstown, and they were duly removed by the proceeding upon which this appeal was taken; but if not void, the testimony was improperly rejected by the court, and the verdict ought to have been that the paupers were unduly removed. The omission in the justice’s record, in relation to the examination of Daniel Badger, the pauper, cannot render the proceedings void; and whether" it would be cause for quashing the proceeding, on appeal before the county court, is…
2Cited by1 opinion
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