Town of Jericho v. Town of Underhill
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an action under the statute to recover the expense •of supporting a transient pauper chargeable to the defendant. The defendant filed a plea in abatement, which the plaintiff traversed. Heard upon this issue at the April term, 1891, Thompson, J., presiding. Upon the facts found by the court, the court gave judgment, pro forma, sustaining the plea and dismissing the suit. The plaintiff excepts.
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This was an action under the statute to recover the expense •of supporting a transient pauper chargeable to the defendant. The defendant filed a plea in abatement, which the plaintiff traversed. Heard upon this issue at the April term, 1891, Thompson, J., presiding. Upon the facts found by the court, the court gave judgment, pro forma, sustaining the plea and dismissing the suit. The plaintiff excepts. It appeared that the plaintiff, defendant and three other towns formed an association for the purpose of supporting their poor upon a common poor farm, under conditions which are fully set…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
ROWELL, J.
Five towns, of which Jericho and Essex are two, associated under the name of the Union Poor Farm Association, for the support of their poor; but whether they associated under the statute in such case made and provided does not appear, and is not material in the view we take of the case.
For the purposes of the association, the towns composing it have all along owned a farm and personal property as tenants in common, having an interest therein in unequal proportions, as specified ' in the constitution of the association, which provides that on…
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