Overseers of the Poor v. Overseers of the Poor
Supreme Court of Vermont
The plaintiffs, by a regular order and warrantof removal, removed a pauper, by the name of Wheeler, from said Georgia to said Grand-Isle, as the place of his legal settlement.
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The plaintiffs, by a regular order and warrantof removal, removed a pauper, by the name of Wheeler, from said Georgia to said Grand-Isle, as the place of his legal settlement. The defendants appealed to the County Court, and there pleaded in bar, “ that the said pauper was unduly removed to said Grand-Isle, and the said order ought to be reversed, because, that, though true it is that the said Wheeler heretofore, to wit, on the 12th day of June, A. D. 1816, at Grand-Isle, aforesaid, was an inhabitant of, and then and there had a legal sefttlement in, said town of Grand-Isle, Yet the…
1Opinion of the CourtHutchinsoN, J.
The question presented in this case is of considerable importance, and attended with some difficulty. The question is, whether the expression, last legal settlement, in our statute, when it relates to orders of removal, means a legal settlement any where, or only within this state ?
The decisions in Massachusetts and Connecticut are contradictory upon this point. Whether this has resulted from their different views of policy, or from the different provisions of their several statutes, does not appear. The decisions in Massachusetts, seem to regard the impossibility of giving effect to any…
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