Town of Townsend v. Town of Athens

The Town of Townsend, by an order of removal, regularly removed one Jonas Deputrin, a pauper, from said Townsend to said Athens, as the place of his last legal settlement; and said town of Athens appealed from said order; and, upon an issue to the jury whether said Athens was the place of said pauper’s last legal settlement, there was no dispute but that said issue was prima facie made out on the part of said Townsend, by showing such a residence of the pauper in tire said town of Athens, as by the law then in force, gained him a settlement. The town of Athens then offered, in their defence,…