Town of St. Johnsbury v. Goodenough
Supreme Court of Vermont
Action on the case to recover the penalty for transporting Augusta Jackson, a poor and indigent person, from Danville to St. Johnsbury, without an order of removal, and the expense for the pauper’s support. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury, June term, Caledonia popnty, 1871, Wheeler, J., presiding.
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Action on the case to recover the penalty for transporting Augusta Jackson, a poor and indigent person, from Danville to St. Johnsbury, without an order of removal, and the expense for the pauper’s support. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury, June term, Caledonia popnty, 1871, Wheeler, J., presiding. Upon the trial it appeared that the person removed was in fact a married woman, and that her maiden name was Augusta Jackson, that she did not live with her husband, and it was not generally known that she was married, and she was known and called Augusta Jackson by the defendant and others…
1Opinion of the Court
*666The opinion of the court was delivered by
Royce, J.
This was an action on the case, brought to recover the penalty given by sec. 31, of chap. 20, of the General Statutes, for transporting Augusta Jackson, a poor and indigent person, from Danville to St. Johnsbury.
The first objection made to the plaintiff’s right of recovery was on account of an alleged misdescription of the person transported by the defendant. It was necessary for the plaintiff to aver in his declaration who the person was that was transported, so that the defendant might know the particular charge he was called upon to answer…
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