Town of New-Haven v. City of Vergennes
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an appeal from an order for the removal of Chios Langioorthy, the wife of Sheffield Langworthy, a pauper, from JYew-Haven to Vergennes, as the place of her last legal settlement.
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This was an appeal from an order for the removal of Chios Langioorthy, the wife of Sheffield Langworthy, a pauper, from JYew-Haven to Vergennes, as the place of her last legal settlement. Issue to the court, whether Vergennes was the place of the pauper’s last legal settlement ? On the trial at the last December term of the county court, Williams, J. presiding, the defendants relied,in their defence, on showing that the pauper had never gained any legal settlement in Vergennes, and undertook to prove that she had been duly warned to leave the town agreeably to the provisions of an act passed…
1Opinion of the Court
Williams J.
delivered the opinion of the Court. — The only question in this case is, whether the warning read was sufficient to prevent the pauper from gaining a settlement in Vergennes ?
The warning, and the proceedings thereon, are so obviously defective that it seems as if there was scarcely an attempt to comply with the statute. Two of the defects only will be noticed.
The town clerk has not recorded the officer’s return on the warning. The statute, which was in force when the warning was served, and which regulated the proceedings in relation to warning out persons to prevent them from…
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