Inhabitants of the County of Essex v. Beery
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was a lili in Chancery, alleging that at the June term, 1823, Seth Cushman, then State’s Attorney for said county, filed several informations in said Court against the towns of Canaan, Leming-ton, Minehead, Brunswick, Maidstone, Guildhall, and Lunenburg, for not having furnished themselves with munitions of war according to the requisitions of law, without leave of the Court — That at the October session of the Legislature in 1823, the defendant, Joseph Berry, was…
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This was a lili in Chancery, alleging that at the June term, 1823, Seth Cushman, then State’s Attorney for said county, filed several informations in said Court against the towns of Canaan, Leming-ton, Minehead, Brunswick, Maidstone, Guildhall, and Lunenburg, for not having furnished themselves with munitions of war according to the requisitions of law, without leave of the Court — That at the October session of the Legislature in 1823, the defendant, Joseph Berry, was appointed State’s Attorney for said county, and was re-appointed the succeeding year — That at the December term, 1833, said…
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Paddock, C. This bill in Chancery is brought by the inhabitants of the county of Essex against Joseph Berry, praying for an injunction and stay of proceedings upon a judgment and execution which Berry obtained against them in a suit before Justice Hale, of Newlury, on the 2d. day of June 1827, for $82 97 damages; alleging, that at the June term of the County Court in Essex county, 1823, seven informations were filed in said Court by the then State’s Attorney against sundry towns in the county,which were continued to December term, 1823. Previous to the…
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