Town of Jericho v. City of Burlington
Supreme Court of Vermont
General and special assumpsit for the expense of keeping a pauper. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September term, 1893, Chittenden county, Munson, J., presiding. At the close of the testimony the court ordered a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff excepts. The pauper was a transient in Jericho. Danville v. Putney, 6 Vt. 512 ; Bristolv.
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General and special assumpsit for the expense of keeping a pauper. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September term, 1893, Chittenden county, Munson, J., presiding. At the close of the testimony the court ordered a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff excepts. The pauper was a transient in Jericho. Danville v. Putney, 6 Vt. 512 ; Bristolv. Rutland, 10 Vt. 574; Browning-ton v. Charleston, 32 Vt. 411; Charleston v. Lunenburg, 23 Vt. 525 ; Barnet v. Ray, 33 Vt. 211; Leicester v. Brandon, 65 Vt. 544; Vershire v. Hyde Park, 64 Vt. 638; New Haven v. Middlebury, 63 Vt. 399;…
1Opinion of the CourtTyler, J.
The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that the pauper and his wife had resided and kept house in defendant city three or four years prior to his wife’s death, which occurred in July, 1891; that he then sold all his furniture except an old chest and two old chairs and went to board in the family of one Bashaw in the city — which was the only place he could call his home — taking his chest and chairs with him; that the last of the next November he went to the plaintiff town in search of work, leaving at Bashaw’s his chest, chairs, a trunk containing some clothing, a wood-saw and a hat; that…
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