Town of Londonderry v. Town of Windham
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an action of assumpsit, brought to recover the expenditures of the plaintiffs, in support of one William JYourse, and his wife, and a large family of D^onged to said Windham: also, to recover the ej^pene paupers. The first count of the declaratieto trneged the sicknlss and expenditures, and notice, correctly, ItttrESjfe ^Qil«b&i^any order of removal.
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This was an action of assumpsit, brought to recover the expenditures of the plaintiffs, in support of one William JYourse, and his wife, and a large family of D^onged to said Windham: also, to recover the ej^pene paupers. The first count of the declaratieto trneged the sicknlss and expenditures, and notice, correctly, ItttrESjfe ^Qil«b&i^any order of removal. The second count T|as for the expele ca the order of removal, and of the removal; mitHo^sfcMess to prevent a removal as soon as the ordel^gtasjnade^^8^ To this declaration there was a general “cMnurrer and joinder in demurrer. Upon these…
1Opinion of the Court
*150The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Hutchinson, J.
I he paupers, in the present case, were not transient persons, suddenly taken sick in Londonderry, so as to bring the claim within the eleventh section of the statute upon this subject. They had come to reside in Londonderry, and were subject to any order of removal the town might procure; and, any claim for their support must be founded upon the second, third, and fourth sections of the act. The third section contains a provision, by which an order might have been made for the removal of these paupers. The fourth section provides that,…
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