Town of Lyndon v. Town of Danville
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from an order of removal of Israel Chamberlin, a pauper, from the town of Lyndon to the town of Danville. Plea, that the town of Danville was not the place of the pauper’s legal settlement. Trial by the court, June Term, 1854, — Poland, J., presiding, — upon the following case stated. Ralph Chamberlin, the father of the pauper, was bora in Dan-ville, February 27, 1800, and, with his father Caleb Chamberlin, had a legal settlement in that town.
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Appeal from an order of removal of Israel Chamberlin, a pauper, from the town of Lyndon to the town of Danville. Plea, that the town of Danville was not the place of the pauper’s legal settlement. Trial by the court, June Term, 1854, — Poland, J., presiding, — upon the following case stated. Ralph Chamberlin, the father of the pauper, was bora in Dan-ville, February 27, 1800, and, with his father Caleb Chamberlin, had a legal settlement in that town. He married Lydia Beebee, at Danville, about the year 1822, and some two years subsequently, removed to 'Stanstead, in the province of Canada…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, at the circuit session in September, by
Redeield, Ch. J.
The majority of the judges of the court, all of whom have heard the case, concur in the opinion that an alien born, whose father never comes into the state after the birth of the pauper, does not derive any settlement from his father, although his father, when he left the state, had a settlement in the state. The question is not of any practical importance, the number of cases which it will reach being very few. But if I were to determine it myself, I should give the statute the same operation it…
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- Case v. ClarkeU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island · 1828
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- Jenkins v. BoyleU.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia · 1816
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- Town of Cabot v. Town of WashingtonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1868
- Town of Barton v. Town of AlbanySupreme Court of Vermont · 1937
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