Town of Northfield v. Town of Plymouth
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from an order of removal of a pauper, described as “ Betty Priest, alias Betty Shed.” Pleas, that the pauper’s last legal settlement was not in Plymouth, and that she was not chargeable to Northfield at the time the order of removal was made, and trial by jury, November Term, 1847, — Redfield, J., presiding.
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Appeal from an order of removal of a pauper, described as “ Betty Priest, alias Betty Shed.” Pleas, that the pauper’s last legal settlement was not in Plymouth, and that she was not chargeable to Northfield at the time the order of removal was made, and trial by jury, November Term, 1847, — Redfield, J., presiding. It was admitted, upon the trial, that the last legal settlement of James Priest, formerly James Priest, junior, was in Plymouth ; and the plaintiffs, to show, that, while he lived, the pauper was his wife, offered in evidence a certified copy from the second volume of the records…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, J.
The only question in this case, which is attended with any difficulty, as it seems to us, is, whether the copy from the records of the town of Plymouth is to be justly regarded as competent evidence, to prove a marriage in fact between the pauper and *589Priest. The case of the Ex’rs of Booge v. Parsons, 2 Vt. 456, fully establishes the point, that this record was sufficiently made and authenticated, so far as it goes. It is, then, to be regarded as an authentic record of the facts, which it contains. But there is one essential defect, the…
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