Eastman v. Meredith
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case. No question was raised on the pleadings. The facts were agreed to by the parties, and are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. took the following positions : It was the duty of the town to provide a suitable and safe place for holding town-meetings. Towns have power to purchase and hold real estate for the public use of the inhabitants, and may, by statute, repair meeting-houses belonging to the town. Oomp.
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Case. No question was raised on the pleadings. The facts were agreed to by the parties, and are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court. took the following positions : It was the duty of the town to provide a suitable and safe place for holding town-meetings. Towns have power to purchase and hold real estate for the public use of the inhabitants, and may, by statute, repair meeting-houses belonging to the town. Oomp. Stat. 100, secs. 3, 4. They may build and own town-houses, inasmuch as they are necessary and convenient for the transaction of public business ; and, having the power,…
1Opinion of the CourtPerley, C. J.
The following may be taken for a general statement of the case set up by the plaintiff. The town of Meredith built a town-house, to be used for holding town-meetings and other public purposes. The house, by the default and negligence of those who built it in behalf of the town, was so improperly constructed that the flooring gave way at the annual town-meeting in 1855, and the plaintiff, an inhabitant and legal voter, in attendance on the meeting, received a serious bodily injury. The accident and injury were caused by the defects and insufficiency of the building.
Assuming that it was the…
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