Usher v. Town of Colchester
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit ; superior court, New London county. Demurrer to the declaration and reservation for advice. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtButler, J.
The declaration in this case is defective in form and substance.
It alleges that the plaintiff was a resident of the town, and that on or about the first of September, 1864, he procured and put a substitute into the army of the United States, for the term .of three years, by advancing the»sum of *568three hundred dollars, which substitute was credited to and applied on the quota of the town, and assisted in filling it, and was of great and substantial benefit to the defendants, and that in consideration thereof they subsequently voted to pay said sum of three hundred dollars to him. This is the…
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