Morse v. State
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. This was an information against the plaintiff in error, for a violation of the statute “ concerning the students of Yale-College" passed in May, 1822. (a) The information alleged, that the defendant, on the 15th of January, 1824, gave credit to Washington Van Zandt, then a student of Yale-College, and under the age of twenty-one years, for suppers, wine and other liquors, to the amount of seven dollars, without the knowledge of the parent or guardian of Van Zandt,…
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IN ERROR. This was an information against the plaintiff in error, for a violation of the statute “ concerning the students of Yale-College" passed in May, 1822. (a) The information alleged, that the defendant, on the 15th of January, 1824, gave credit to Washington Van Zandt, then a student of Yale-College, and under the age of twenty-one years, for suppers, wine and other liquors, to the amount of seven dollars, without the knowledge of the parent or guardian of Van Zandt, and without the knowledge or consent of the officers of Yale-College, or either of them. On the trial before the county…
1Opinion of the Court
Hosmer, Ch. J.
To bring one, who has given credit to a person under age, within the purview of the act on which the prosecution is founded, an officer or officers of college must have been authorized “by the government thereof,” with capacity to give or refuse consent to the contract of a minor. The legislature never intended to inhibit the students of Yale-College, being minors, from obtaining credit, in any event; but to prevent their doing it in violation of rules established by the government of that institution.
It is not alleged in the information, that such an officer or officers as…
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