Town of Reading v. Town of Weathersfield
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an appeal from an order of removal of one Mary Thomas, a pauper, with her three children, from the town of Reading to the town of Weathersfield, made by two justices in 1851. Plea, that the pauper was unduly removed, because her last legal settlement was not in Weathersfield, and trial by jury, at the May Term, 1857, — Underwood, J., presiding.
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This was an appeal from an order of removal of one Mary Thomas, a pauper, with her three children, from the town of Reading to the town of Weathersfield, made by two justices in 1851. Plea, that the pauper was unduly removed, because her last legal settlement was not in Weathersfield, and trial by jury, at the May Term, 1857, — Underwood, J., presiding. It appeared that the pauper was the widow of one Anson F. Thomas, who was born April 15, 1806 and died in 1850. Anson F. Thomas was the son of one John Thomas, and the pauper’s last legal settlement being that of Anson, and that of Anson…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Aldis, J.
The plaintiff requested the court to charge the jury that if the house was within the chartered limits of Weathersfield, then John Thomas’ last settlement was in Weathersfield, and the plaintiff was entitled to recover.
The court refused so to charge, but told the jury that though such house was within the chartered limits of Weathersfield, yet if they found that “ said John, from 1803 to 1822 paid taxes in Cavendish, sent children to school there, attended town meetings and voted there, and was treated by Cavendish as a citizen of that town,…
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