Voorhis v. Whipple & Hawes
New York Supreme Court
THIS case came before the court, on a certiorari, directed to two justices of the peace. The proceedings below were under the 16th section ©f the act for the settlement and relief of the poor, (24 sess. c. 184. 1 Rev. Laws, 571.) and are, shortly, these: One Carril came into the town of Richfield, in the county of Otsego, and soon after became wounded and disabled, so as to be incapable of being removed to his supposed legal place of settlement in Charleston, in the county…
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THIS case came before the court, on a certiorari, directed to two justices of the peace. The proceedings below were under the 16th section ©f the act for the settlement and relief of the poor, (24 sess. c. 184. 1 Rev. Laws, 571.) and are, shortly, these: One Carril came into the town of Richfield, in the county of Otsego, and soon after became wounded and disabled, so as to be incapable of being removed to his supposed legal place of settlement in Charleston, in the county of Montgomery, upon which the overseers of the poor of Richfield gave notice of these facts to Voorhis, one of the…
1Per curiam
The inducement to the enacting of the 16th section of the act for the settlement and relief of the poor, was to relieve the town where a pauper happened to be taken sick or lame, so as not to be able to be removed back to the place of his last legal settlement; but in providing for this summary relief to *95the towxi actually burthened with the pauper, it presupposes, that the place of his last legal settlement has been ascertained, according to the provisions of the 7th section, to wit, by an order of two justices, making an adjudication upon the fact, after having themselves exanilned the…
2Cited by6 opinions
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- Bowes v. CannonSupreme Court of Colorado · 1911
- Ex parte Overseers of the PoorNew York Supreme Court · 1825
- Gourley v. AllenCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1825
- Warren v. BrooksNew York Supreme Court · 1827
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