Supreme Court of Vermont, 1818

Overseers of the Poor of St. Albans v. Overseers of the Poor of Georgia

Overseers of the Poor of St. Albans v. Overseers of the Poor of Georgia
Supreme Court of Vermont · Decided July 1, 1818
1 Brayt. 177

Overseers of the Poor of St. Albans v. Overseers of the Poor of Georgia

Opinion of the Court

Opinion of the Court. That this case comes under the 4th section of the Act concerning legal settlement, and providing for the poor, 1 Stat. p. '385 ; the words “such stranger,” in the 4th section, refer to the “stranger who shall have come to reside in sufcb town or place, and has not gained a legal settlement thereinand not to the poor stranger, on whom an order has been made. ' Jt would not be a rational construction of the Act, that a town should be compelled to order the removal of a pauper, who cannot be actually removed, or even examined, touching his ability, and last place of legal settlement.

2. On the second point, the Court consider the order of the. *179Justice bas no concern with the claim of the town, sued for in this action, and the objection was properly over-ruled.

Motion dismissed.

New trial not granted.

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