Town of Westmore v. Town of Sheffield
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit to recover the cost of relieving one Daniel Leland, an alleged pauper. Trial- by jury, September Term, 1882, Orleans County, Powers, J., presiding.
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Assumpsit to recover the cost of relieving one Daniel Leland, an alleged pauper. Trial- by jury, September Term, 1882, Orleans County, Powers, J., presiding. Verdict for the plaintiff: The court charged, in part: “ In order for the plaintiff to recover for these expenditures it must show to you by a fair preponderance of the evidence that this Daniel Leland was a poor person, fallen in need of help ; that he had a legal settlement in the town of Sheffield, and that these expenditures were incurred in good faith in his proper support. The first question which will naturally present itself to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Yeazby, J. I.
The action is assumpsit brought by the town of Westmore against the town of Sheffield to recover for certain expenditures made by the plaintiff in the needful support of Daniel Leland, an alleged transient poor person in the plaintiff town. Darnel had lived with his father until the decease of the latter in 1867, and was then over twenty-one years old. Early in 1868, pursuant to an arrangement between Daniel’s mother ''.¿ind brother Joseph, the latter took Daniel from Sheffield, where hé'had lived with his parents, to Joseph’s home in…
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