Henry Atkins & Co. v. Town of Randolph
Supreme Court of Vermont
Assumpsit for goods sold and delivered. Plea, the general issue, and trial by the Orange County Court, — Poland, J., presiding.
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Assumpsit for goods sold and delivered. Plea, the general issue, and trial by the Orange County Court, — Poland, J., presiding. The plaintiffs’ claim was for liquors sold by them in Boston, in the years 1853 and 1854, all of the account having accrued in 1853, except one item of seventy dollars and seventy-one cents, for three barrels of Medford rum, which were sold Jan. 18, 1854. The plaintiffs gave evidence tending to prove that they sold the liquor, charged in their account, at the respective dates therein stated, to the town of Randolph, and upon its credit, upon the order of Samuel B.…
1Opinion of the CourtBarrett, J.
In this case, the plaintiffs sold liquors to Samuel B. Mann, as the “ agent” for the town of Randolph, appointed by the county commissioner under the provisions of the third section of the act of 1852, “to prevent traffic in intoxicating liquors for the purpose of drinking.”
The plaintiffs’ account shows that the liquors were sold by them at different times within the year 1853, except three barrels of Medford rum, sold under date of January 18, 1854. In the view *231we take of the case, however, the fact that this last item of charge accrued after the amendment of the act, in respect to the…
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