Jenney v. Alden
Supreme Court of Vermont
Petition eor Mandamus to compel selectmen to call a special town meeting for the election of officers, brought to the Supreme Court for Addison County at its May Term, 1906, and then heard on petition, answer, and testimony taken and filed. The second petition presented to the defendants was the petition signed by O. C. Huntley and others, and required defendant to call a special town meeting “for the following purposes.”
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Petition eor Mandamus to compel selectmen to call a special town meeting for the election of officers, brought to the Supreme Court for Addison County at its May Term, 1906, and then heard on petition, answer, and testimony taken and filed. The second petition presented to the defendants was the petition signed by O. C. Huntley and others, and required defendant to call a special town meeting “for the following purposes.” Then follows an exact copy of the several articles in the warning of the annual meeting which was adjourned without day. The result of the adjournment was to make all…
1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.
This is a petition for a writ of mandamus brought against the selectmen of the town of Leicester by a voter and taxpayer therein, to compel such selectmen to call a special meeting of that town for the election of officers and the transaction of other business.
It appears that the defendants were duly elected selectmen of the town of Leicester at the annual meeting of that town in 1905. As such, they duly warned the March meeting of 1906 to be held at the town hall of the town on the first Tuesday of March at one o’clock in the afternoon, at which time and place some ninety-four or more of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Stone v. SmallSupreme Court of Vermont · 1882
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