Lisbon v. Clark
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Debt. Tbe plaintiffs alleged in tbeir declaration that in the year 1841 they built two bridges across the river Ammonoosuck, within the limits of Lisbon, at a cost of over §1,000 each, and opened them for the public travel; and on the second Tuesday of March, 1842, at their annual meeting, pursuant to an article inserted in the warning, which was, “to see if the town will vote to pass by-laws to impose a fine of one dollar on all persons riding or driving across the village…
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Debt. Tbe plaintiffs alleged in tbeir declaration that in the year 1841 they built two bridges across the river Ammonoosuck, within the limits of Lisbon, at a cost of over §1,000 each, and opened them for the public travel; and on the second Tuesday of March, 1842, at their annual meeting, pursuant to an article inserted in the warning, which was, “to see if the town will vote to pass by-laws to impose a fine of one dollar on all persons riding or driving across the village bridge and the salmon-hole bridge, faster than a walk, agreeably to an act passed January 18, 1837, voted to collect…
1Opinion of the CourtGilchrist, J.
The act of January 13,1837, empowered towns, at their annual meetings, to establish by-laws to prevent all persons from riding or driving horses at a rate faster than a walk over any bridge within the limits of such town, which shall have cost $1,000 or over, and to annex penalties not over one dollar, &e.
*238In the warrant convening the annual town meeting of Lisbon in 1842, an article was inserted, “ To see if the town will vote to pass by-laws to impose a fine of one dollar on all persons riding or driving across the village bridge, and also the salmon-hole bridge, so called, in this town,…
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