Town of Rockingham v. Town of Springfield
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from the order of removal of one Mrs. Smith, a pauper. Heard on the report of a referee, March Term, 1885, Walker, J., presiding. Judgment that the pauper was unduly removed. The case appears in the opinion.
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Appeal from the order of removal of one Mrs. Smith, a pauper. Heard on the report of a referee, March Term, 1885, Walker, J., presiding. Judgment that the pauper was unduly removed. The case appears in the opinion. Mrs. Smith, after the abandonment, became in law the head of the family, as much so as her husband was before the abandonment ; and as she had an actual residence or home in Kock-ingham at time of abandonment, such residence in.law continued to date of order of removal. Bethel v. Tunbridge, 13 Yt. 445 ; Sprague v. Litherb'erry, 4 McLean, 442 ; Densmare v. United States, 93 U. S.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Powers, J.
This was an appeal from an order of removal of Susan L. Smith with her children as paupers from the town of Rockingham to the defendant town. Sylvester L. Smith, the husband of Susan L., resided with his family in Rocking-ham in September, 1881. Although prior to this time he had moved from place to place often rvith his family, still at this time, as the referee’s report says, “he resided” in Rocking-ham and had a home there. In the language of the pauper laws, he had “ come to reside ” in that town.
His residence there was the legal…
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