Baker v. Baker
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit. Tbe declaration, was in common form of counts in assumpsit. Pleas,- tbe general issue and pleas in offset. Trial by jury, May term, 1867, BARRETT, J., presiding.
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Assumpsit. Tbe declaration, was in common form of counts in assumpsit. Pleas,- tbe general issue and pleas in offset. Trial by jury, May term, 1867, BARRETT, J., presiding. Tbe plaintiff’s testimony tended to show that be is tbe defendant’s son; was twenty-two years old on tbe seventh day of November, 1866 ; that, with tbe consent of tbe defendant,- be enlisted for nine months, on tbe 18th day of September, 1862, and went into tbe service of tbe United States as a soldier; that of tbe money which was paid on account of said enlistment and service tbe defendant received a town bounty, tbe…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
PiERPOiNT, C. -J.
The principal question involved in this case, is as to which of the two (the plaintiff or the defendant) the money belonged to, which was paid by the town of Sharon to the plaintiff as bounty money, upon Ms enlisting and being mustered into the United States service as a soldier to the credit of said town, the plaintiff at the time being a minor, and the defendant being his father. It is conceded that the plaintiff enlisted with the consent of the defendant. He did not enlist by the direction or request, or in discharge of any…
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