Winslow v. Anderson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a writ of error, brought to reverse a judgment of a justice of the peace, imposing a fine of five dollars thirty-three cents, upon the plaintiff in error, for his non-appearance at a muster of a military company to which he belonged.
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This was a writ of error, brought to reverse a judgment of a justice of the peace, imposing a fine of five dollars thirty-three cents, upon the plaintiff in error, for his non-appearance at a muster of a military company to which he belonged. The error assigned is, that at the time of rendering the said judg ment, the plaintiff" in error was an infant, and under the age of twenty-one years; and the same judgment was rendered against him by default, without his having any guardian appointed, as by law he ought to have had.
1Opinion of the Court
The writ of error was brought at the last May term, and was continued to this term; and now the opinion of the Court was delivered by
Parsons, C. J.
This case comes before us by a writ of error, sued by the guardian of Robert Winslow against Robert Anderson, clerk of a military company, to correct the errors of certain proceedings had before a justice of the peace, in which the plaintiff" in error was convicted of an offence, in neglecting to appear, armed and equipped according to law, at a company muster, after due notice. And error in fact is assigned, that the plaintiff* in error was an…
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