Webster v. Seymour
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an action of assault and false imprisonment. — Plea, general issue, with a justification of the assault and imprisonment. Replication — That at the time of the assault and imprisonment, the plaintiff was a soldier or artificer in the United States service, and that his body could not be arrested or imprisoned, on any debt or contract for a less sum than twenty dollars.
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This was an action of assault and false imprisonment. — Plea, general issue, with a justification of the assault and imprisonment. Replication — That at the time of the assault and imprisonment, the plaintiff was a soldier or artificer in the United States service, and that his body could not be arrested or imprisoned, on any debt or contract for a less sum than twenty dollars. The plaintiff offered evidence tending to prove that he was on the first day'of March 1833, regularly enlisted as a private soldier into the army of the United States for the term of five years, and was faithfully…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Phelps, J.
The point submitted for our decision is, whether the plaintiff was legally liable to arrest for the tax described in the case.
The question, how far persons attached to the army of the United States may be subjected to taxation in the particular district where they are stationed, and may in fact reside, is not, in its full extent, involved in the case. And whether the city of Vergennes can claim such persons, as may be attached to the Arsenal at that place, as residents,, and subject to taxation by reason of their residence there, is not…
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