Reading v. Rockingham
Supreme Court of Vermont
AT the June term of the county court, 1826, a verdict was taken in this cause by consent, for the town of Reading, damages $76,71, subject to the opinion of the court, upon the following case agreed upon between the parties.
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AT the June term of the county court, 1826, a verdict was taken in this cause by consent, for the town of Reading, damages $76,71, subject to the opinion of the court, upon the following case agreed upon between the parties. Paul Fletcher, a transient person, travelling through the town of Reading, was taken sick there, and was provided with necessaries by said town till he died, and this action is brought to recover the reasonable expenses of ibis fast sickness; and the only question submitted to the court is, whether the said pauper was legally settled in said town of Rockingham ; he moved…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was pronounced by
Skinner, Ch. J.
From the case as stated by the parties, it appears that Fletcher, the pauper, moved into the town of Rockingham on the. 6th February, 1815, and resided there more than one year, viz. till the 20th March, 1816. A warning to depart, issued in due form by the selectmen of Rocking-ham on the 10th September, 1815, was served by the constable of Rockingham, to whom the same was directed, on the 21st of September, 1815, as appears of record in the town clerk’s office of Rockingham, and there recorded the 22d September, 1815 ; the return…
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