Town of Landgrove v. Town of Pawlet
Supreme Court of Vermont
In this case two justices of the peace made an order on the third day of April, 1843, pursuant to the provisions of the statute, that .one Rhoda Comstock, a pauper, remove, with her family and effects, from the town of Landgrove to the town of Pawlet on or before the fifteenth day of April, 1843. On the fourteenth day of January, 1845, a warrant of removal was issued, and the pauper was removed on the twenty fourth day of January, 1845. On the eleventh day of March, 1845,…
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In this case two justices of the peace made an order on the third day of April, 1843, pursuant to the provisions of the statute, that .one Rhoda Comstock, a pauper, remove, with her family and effects, from the town of Landgrove to the town of Pawlet on or before the fifteenth day of April, 1843. On the fourteenth day of January, 1845, a warrant of removal was issued, and the pauper was removed on the twenty fourth day of January, 1845. On the eleventh day of March, 1845, the overseers of the poor of the town of Pawlet prayed, that an appeal might be allowed them “ from the aforesaid warrant…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Royce, J.
The present is a different case from those of Strafford v. Hartland, 2 Vt. 565, and Braintree v. Westford, 17 Vt. 141. In each of those cases a copy of the order, attested by the justices, had been delivered to the overseers of the appellant town within the thirty days prescribed by statute, and a subsequent term of the county court had passed, before the appeal was taken. In this instance we are not to assume, that such a copy of the order had been delivered, or that any notice of the order was received by the appellants, until the warrant of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Town of Braintree v. Town of WestfordSupreme Court of Vermont · 1844
- Town of Strafford v. Town of HartlandSupreme Court of Vermont · 1830
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