Town of Vershire v. Town of Hyde Park
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action to recover for the support of a pauper. Heard at tlie December term, 1889, Orange county, Tyler, J., presiding, upon an agreed statement of facts. Judgment for tlie defendant. Tlie plaintiff excepts.
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Action to recover for the support of a pauper. Heard at tlie December term, 1889, Orange county, Tyler, J., presiding, upon an agreed statement of facts. Judgment for tlie defendant. Tlie plaintiff excepts. Previous to the act of 1886, the adjudication upon the order of removal would have conclusively fixed upon the defendant the liability to support this pauper. langrove v. Pawlet, 20 Vt. 309; Chester v. Wheeloch, 28 Vt. 554; Windham v. Chester, 45 Vt. 459; Dorset v. Manchester, 3 Vt. 370; Barre v. Morris-town., 4 Vt. 574; Rupert v. Sandgate, 10 Vt. 278; Hartland v. Williamstown, 1 Ailcen,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
START, J.
It appears from the agreed case, that the pauper for whose maintenance the plaintiff town claims the defendant town is chargeable, is the unemancipated daughter of Darius. H. Rowell; and that on the 12th day of October, 1886, it was adjudged by a court of inquiry that said Rowell had come to the plaintiff town to reside, that his legal settlement was in the defendant town, and he was ordered to remove with his family to the defendant town. From this order, the defendant appealed to the December term, 1886, of the Orange County Court, and it…
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