Town of Poultney v. Town of Glover
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from an order, made by two justices of the peace, that Solomon Beach, Jr., and his wife and four children, be removed, as paupers, from the town of Poultney to the town of Glover. Plea, that the town of Glover was not the place of the legal settlement of the paupers, and trial by the court, November Adjourned Term, 1849, — Hall, J,, presiding.
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Appeal from an order, made by two justices of the peace, that Solomon Beach, Jr., and his wife and four children, be removed, as paupers, from the town of Poultney to the town of Glover. Plea, that the town of Glover was not the place of the legal settlement of the paupers, and trial by the court, November Adjourned Term, 1849, — Hall, J,, presiding. It appeared, that Solomon Beach, senior, the father of the pauper, Solomon Beach, Jr., moved into the town of Glover in 1808, and resided there, supporting himself and his family, until March, 1830, when lie removed, with his family, into the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Kellogg, J.
That the father of the pauper, by his continued residence in Glover from February, 1838, to June, 1845, acquired for him self and his minor children a settlement in that town is not controverted. But it is denied, that the pauper took a derivative settlement from the settlement of the father, thus acquired in Glover, inasmuch as he became of agelong before the father acquired his settlement. Upon the pauper becoming of age, he was capable of acquiring a settlement in his own right; but his continuance in Glover, after his arriving at…
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