Overseers of Trenton v. Overseers of Maidenhead
Overseers of Trenton v. Overseers of Maidenhead
Opinion of the Court
It appeared by the case returned on the eertiorari, that Catherine Land and her three children were brought before Justice Ewing, of Trenton, as vagrants, strolling about, without itny visible means of livelihood. On her examination, it appeared she had a settlement in Maidenhead, upon which the justice made an order to deliver her and her three children, as vagrants, to the constable of Maidenhead, as the place of their settlement; against which order the overseers of Maidenhead appealed to the Sessions of Hunterdon, who quashed the said warrant, with costs. The objection on the
Cited in Baldwin v. Simmons, 4 Hal. 249.
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