Town of Huntington v. Birch
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. This was a petition returnable to the county court of Fair-field county, November term, 1834, brought by Birch and others against the towns of Huntington and Monroe, praying for alterations in certain highways in those towns.
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IN ERROR. This was a petition returnable to the county court of Fair-field county, November term, 1834, brought by Birch and others against the towns of Huntington and Monroe, praying for alterations in certain highways in those towns. At the next term, viz. in January, 1835, the court found that said petition was legally served on the select-men of the towns of Huntington and Monroe ; and that said select-men of said towns have ever neglected and refused to make said alterations in said highways, although requested so to do, by Donald Judson, Esq., in behalf of the petitioners, as stated in…
1Opinion of the Court
Huntington, I.
Two causes of error have been assigned and argued before us by counsel: 1. That it does not appear from the record, that the oath prescribed by law, was taken by the committee, before they entered on the duties of their appointment. 2. That the county court should have received the evidence offered in support of the remonstrance.
1. It is admitted, that the statute requires an oath to be taken, by the committee, before they proceed to execute the duties imposed upon them. The form of the oath is prescribed in the act, tit. 48. a. 12. p. 69. Upon examining the record, we find it…
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