Town of Cavendish v. Town of Troy
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal from an order of removal of Esther Thomas, wife of Henry C. Thomas, and Ellen, their daughter, as paupers, from the town of Cavendish to the town of Troy. Plea, that the paupers were unduly removed, for that their last legal settlement-was not in the town of Troy. Trial by jury, May term, 1867, Baebett, J., presiding.
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Appeal from an order of removal of Esther Thomas, wife of Henry C. Thomas, and Ellen, their daughter, as paupers, from the town of Cavendish to the town of Troy. Plea, that the paupers were unduly removed, for that their last legal settlement-was not in the town of Troy. Trial by jury, May term, 1867, Baebett, J., presiding. On trial it appeared that the paupers and said Henry C. Thomas had not any settlement in this state, except as derived from Eras-tus Thomas, the father of said Henry 0. Thomas; and it also appeared that said Erastus Thomas had a legal settlement in the town of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Peck, J.
The issue in this case was whether the paupers, at the date of the order of removal, had a legal settlement in Troy. *103’This depended on. the question whether Erastus Thomas gained a settlement in Troy, by seven years’ continuous residence, between 1824 when he removed with his family from "Weathersfield to Troy, and the time of his removal back to Weathersfield in 1834. If the testimony on the part of the plaintiffs was true, Erastus .Thomas resided in Troy continuously from 1824 to 1834. The defendants’ evidence tended to show that he removed…
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