Town of Cabot v. Town of Washington
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from an order of removal of one Nelson F. Rutter and his family, paupers',1 made on the 22d óf February, 1866, ordering, them to remove from Cabot to Washington; Trial by the court,. September term, 1867, Peck, J.', presiding.
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Appeal from an order of removal of one Nelson F. Rutter and his family, paupers',1 made on the 22d óf February, 1866, ordering, them to remove from Cabot to Washington; Trial by the court,. September term, 1867, Peck, J.', presiding. An agreed statement of facts was read on trial, and a copy of record of the county court of Orange county; also a record of the warning out of John T. Rutter, and a record of the warning out of Mehitablc Rutter, his wife, in 1816. Those records of warning out were introduced by the defendants, and objected to by-the plaintiffs; and the court decided that…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Barrett, J.
We find no occasion in this case to revise or dis*171cuss tbe law of alienage and citizenship as affected by the birth of the pauper’s mother in Canada, and the removals and residences of her father in this state and in Canada. The subject has been carefully considered, elaborately discussed, and pretty fully settled in a succession of cases from that of Lyndon v. Danville, 28 Vt., 809, to that of Elmore v. Calais, 38 Vt., 468, and, in our apprehension, notwithstanding a little querulous criticism of the learned former Chief Justice in Westford…
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