Town of Reading v. Town of Ludlow
Supreme Court of Vermont
Removal of pauper, tried upon a case stated as follows : It is agreed by and between the towns above named, to try tho case between them as above named, which is a question concerning the legal settlement of one Lydia Cailerine Buck, a pauper now supported by said town of Reading at the Insane Asylum at Brattleboro, Vt., in all its stages to final judgment thereon, upon the following statement of facts, to wit: The said Lydia is the legitimate daughter of one Richard Warren,…
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Removal of pauper, tried upon a case stated as follows : It is agreed by and between the towns above named, to try tho case between them as above named, which is a question concerning the legal settlement of one Lydia Cailerine Buck, a pauper now supported by said town of Reading at the Insane Asylum at Brattleboro, Vt., in all its stages to final judgment thereon, upon the following statement of facts, to wit: The said Lydia is the legitimate daughter of one Richard Warren, who was born in said Ludlow, February 3, 1797, and had a legal settlement there, and he lived there until November 9,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Ross, J.
It is conceded that the pauper, Lydia 0. Warren, has her legal settlement, derived from the settlement of her failer, in the town of Ludlow, unless she has acquired one since January 22d, 1862, in the twn of Reading, either in her OAvn right or through her marriage with George H. Buck. Deducting the time, since then, which she has been confined in the Asylum for the Insane at Brattlcbcro, as a lunatic, in accordance with section 40 of chapter 20 of the General Statutes, her residence in Reading prior to the order of removal was less than seven…
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