Town of Barnet v. Town of Plainfield
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit to recover for the support of a pauper. Plea, the general issue. Trial by court on an agreed statement of facts at the June Term, 1908, Caledonia County, Sail, J., presiding. Judgment, pro forma, for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case. The notice in this case is insufficient in that it does not inform the defendant town of the condition of the pauper. Randolph v. Boxbury, 70 Vt. 175; Mt.
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Assumpsit to recover for the support of a pauper. Plea, the general issue. Trial by court on an agreed statement of facts at the June Term, 1908, Caledonia County, Sail, J., presiding. Judgment, pro forma, for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case. The notice in this case is insufficient in that it does not inform the defendant town of the condition of the pauper. Randolph v. Boxbury, 70 Vt. 175; Mt. Holly ,v. Peru, 72 Vt. 68; Essex v. Jericho, 76 Vt. 104. The notice is sufficient. The purpose of the notice is to acquaint the town chargeable with support of a…
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
The notice involved in this case is entirely inadequate. It reads as'follows:
Barnet, June 24, 1907.'
Overseer of Poor,
Plainfield, Vt.
Dear Sir:
We have a boy, of Chas. Bancroft, who is in the Waterbury asylum, who is a resident of your town, sick in the hospital at St. Johnsbury. He has had an operation of some kind, and his family have applied for help from this town. I will see that these bills are paid, and will look to the town of Plainfield for remuneration.
Tours very truly,
A. N. Gileillan,
Overseer of Poor,
Barnet, Vt.
The boy had his operation, or at least went to hospital June 8, and is…
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