Corey v. Bath
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Case. The declaration, in one of the actions, alleged that whereas there was, on the 8th day of July, 1855, a certain public highway in said town of Eath, which highway the said inhabitants of said town were then, and still are, bound to keep and maintain in good and sufficient repair, and free from all obstructions, and which highway leads from the foot of the Gilman hill, so called, up along the western bank of the Ammonoosuc river, in said Bath, by the farm on which…
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Case. The declaration, in one of the actions, alleged that whereas there was, on the 8th day of July, 1855, a certain public highway in said town of Eath, which highway the said inhabitants of said town were then, and still are, bound to keep and maintain in good and sufficient repair, and free from all obstructions, and which highway leads from the foot of the Gilman hill, so called, up along the western bank of the Ammonoosuc river, in said Bath, by the farm on which Oliver ' Corey and Ira G. Corey live, to the town of Lisbon ; and whereas, on said 8th day of July, 1855, said plaintiff was…
1Opinion of the CourtPerley, C. J.
The Eevised Statutes enact under a penalty that “ No person shall do any work, labor, or business of his secular calling, to the disturbance of others, works of necessity and mercy excepted, on the first day of the week, commonly called the Lord’s day; nor shall any person use any game, play, or recreation on that day, or any part thereof.” A more extended operation has been given to that branch of our statute which prohibits work, labor, or business of the secular calling on Sunday, *538than tbe English statute on that subject has received. Frost v. Hull, 4 N. H. 153; Allen v. Lemming, 14 N. H.…
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