Town of East Haven v. Town of Derby
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from an order of removal of a pauper. The defendant moved to quash the proceedings for reasons set forth in the opinion. The court at the September Term, 1864, Poland, Ch. J., presiding, sustained, the motion and ordered that the order of removal be quashed, — to which the plaintiff excepted.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Peck, J.
The case was entered in the county court at the March Term, A. D. 1864, at which time the defendant town filed a motion to quash the proceedings, alleging in the motion that the pauper has never been removed to the town of Derby, and that no copy of said order of removal, certified by the parties making the order, was left with the overseer of the town of Derby within thirty days after the making of the order, nor at any other time.
This motion and the argument of the defendant’s counsel in support of it rest upon the ground that at the date of…
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