Town of Worcester v. Town of East Montpelier
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an action brought to charge the defendant town with the expense of supporting one Daniel Durfee, a ■ pauper, and was tried by court at the March Term., Washington County,. 1888, Rowell, L, presiding, upon an agreed statement of facts. Judgment for the defendant. The plaintiff excepts.
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This was an action brought to charge the defendant town with the expense of supporting one Daniel Durfee, a ■ pauper, and was tried by court at the March Term., Washington County,. 1888, Rowell, L, presiding, upon an agreed statement of facts. Judgment for the defendant. The plaintiff excepts. The following is the agreed statement of facts: “It is agreed that Daniel Durfee, for whose support this suit is brought, was living with his father, Milo Durfee, in East Montpelier in 1874. That Milo Durfee at that time had a legal settlement in East Montpelier. That Milo Durfee in the fall of 1874…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by '
Royoe, Olí. J.
It appears from the agreed statement of facts upon which this case was heard, that under the law as it stood prior to the taking effect of No. 42 of the laws of 1886, approved Nov. 24, 1886, “to take effect from its passage,” the legal settlement of the pauper was in the town of East Montpelier, which town supported him from the time of an application on his behalf for town aid, March 12, 1881, to Dec. 28, 1886, when it refused longer to aid him, on the ground that “ the law had been changed.” . It further appears that from the time…
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