Sheldon Poor House Ass'n v. Town of Sheldon
Supreme Court of Vermont
Chancery. Franklin County, September Term, 1899, Start, Chancellor. On bill, answer and master’s report tlie court, pro forma and without hearing, rendered a decree making perpetual a temporary injunction granted upon the bringing of the bill. The defendant appealed. The orator is an association and body corporate, organized in accordance with the provisions of Y. S. Chap. 145, consisting of various towns in Franklin County, including the defendant town.
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Chancery. Franklin County, September Term, 1899, Start, Chancellor. On bill, answer and master’s report tlie court, pro forma and without hearing, rendered a decree making perpetual a temporary injunction granted upon the bringing of the bill. The defendant appealed. The orator is an association and body corporate, organized in accordance with the provisions of Y. S. Chap. 145, consisting of various towns in Franklin County, including the defendant town. It. owns and occupies a farm in the defendant town on which are supported paupers of said various towns, including paupers of school age. In…
1Opinion of the CourtTaft, C. J.
A town may support one of its paupers in an adjoining or other _ town. The towns represented by the orator, have the right to support their paupers in the poor house of the association in the defendant town. "While a pauper of one town is kept and supported by it in another town, it is in law, a resident of the town supporting it. The atmosphere of the latter town, in legal effect, envelops the pauper as fully and thoroughly as if the pauper was kept in the town liable for its support. Barnet v. Ray, 33 Vt. 205; Leicester v. Brandon, 65 Vt. 544; Sandgate v. Rupert, 67 Vt. 258.
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2Cases cited3 opinions
- Town of Leicester v. Town of BrandonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1892
- Town of Barnet v. RaySupreme Court of Vermont · 1860
- Town of Sandgate v. Town of RupertSupreme Court of Vermont · 1894