Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Bridgewater v. Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Brookfield
New York Supreme Court
On certiorari to the general sessions of Madison county. Zilpha Ward, a pauper, was removed, by an order of two justices, from the town of Brookfield to the town of Bridge-water, in Madison county; and on appeal to the sessions. a, , , , , they amrmed the order.
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On certiorari to the general sessions of Madison county. Zilpha Ward, a pauper, was removed, by an order of two justices, from the town of Brookfield to the town of Bridge-water, in Madison county; and on appeal to the sessions. a, , , , , they amrmed the order. Brookfield claimed that the pauper had acquired a derivative settlement, in Bridgewater, from tier father, J. B. Ward; and the single question before the sessions was, whether he was settled there by virtue of an equitable estate, which Brookfield alleged he had acquired under a contract to purchase a farm of Betsey Converse, She had,…
1Opinion of the Court
*301 Curia,
per Sutherland, J.
In The Overseers of the Poor of the town of Whitestown v. The Overseers of the Poor of the town of Constable, (14 John. 469) it was held, “ that an indefeasible equitable interest, in land, was a purchase of an estate or interest, within the meaning of the 4th section of the act for the relief and settlement of the poor,” (1 R. L. 280) and gave a settlement to the owner of it, in the town where the land lay, provided he actually paid for it the sum of $75 ; and in Augusta v. Paris, (16 John. 281) Spencer, J. in delivering the opinion of the Court, says, “ the statute…
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- Overseers of the Poor of Whitestown v. Overseers of the Poor of ConstableNew York Supreme Court · 1817
- Overseers of the poor of Blenheim v. Overseers of WindhamNew York Supreme Court · 1814
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