Town of Ripton v. Town of Brandon
Supreme Court of Vermont
A-ssumpsit to recover expenses incurred in the support of a pauper. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1906, Addison County, Miles, J., presiding.
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A-ssumpsit to recover expenses incurred in the support of a pauper. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1906, Addison County, Miles, J., presiding. Yerdiet and judgment for the plaintiff. ' The defendant excepted. - It appeared that on February 8, 1905, in plaintiff town, Charles J. Robbins, the alleged pauper, who had last lived for three years supporting himself-and family, in defendant town, became so dangerously ill with gall stones that an operation was decided upon by the physicians called to attend him; that the operation was accordingly performed on Feb. 10; that…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
The plaintiff was properly allowed to show by the witness John W. Robbins that, as between him and his father, the alleged poor person, the latter was to pay the remaining note secured by the mortgage on the real estate owned by them as tenants in common, if he (the father) kept the place, and that if he could not pay it the' witness was to have the place. The evidence had a bearing on the question of the father’s available property.
The value of this real estate was a. material question, and one on which witnesses disagreed: those on the part of the plaintiff estimating the value of the…
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