Case Name: TOWN OF WASHINGTON against RISING
Court: Vermont Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Vermont
Decision Date: 1818
Citations: 1 Brayt. 188
Docket Number: No. 15
Parties: TOWN OF WASHINGTON against RISING.
Judges: 
Reporter: Brayton
Volume: 1
Pages: 188–188

Head Matter:
No. 15.
TOWN OF WASHINGTON against RISING.
Orange,
1818.

Opinion:
IN Error. . In this case the Court decided, that overseers of the poor might, as agents for their town, make contracts for the support of the poor of their town, so as to bind to the fulfilment of such contract; and that, where there are three overseers and one was requested, by another, to take charge of a particular pauper, his contract for the support of such pauper, wa$ binding on the town.