Bull v. Town of Warren
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill in equity to set aside an injunction and to compel the respondent town to pay the petitioner certain bounty claimed by him under a vote of the town as a volunteer in the military service of the United States. The Superior Court (Minor, J.,') made a finding of the facts and granted the prayer of the petition, and the respondents brought the record before this court by motion in error. ■
1Opinion of the CourtButler, J.
In August, 1864, after the call by the Presi*84dent for five hundred thousand men under the act of Congress of 1868, a town meeting was called in the town of Warren, pursuant to a warning “ for the purpose of acting on a proposition to'pay such money as might be deemed expedient, to such citizens of the town as should volunteer under said call, and be mustered into said service, and apply on the quota of the town under said call.”
At that meeting the following vote was passed:
“Voted, to pay the volunteer and drafted men two hundred dollars each. And also to pay those who volunteer, are drafted,…
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