Chadwick v. Knox
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Asuiipsit, for work and labor, &c. The defendant filed a set off, consisting' chiefly of services and expenses, performed and laid out in obtaining a pardon for the plaintiff, when he was imprisoned as a convict for crime in the State Prison of Maine, at Thomaston.
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Asuiipsit, for work and labor, &c. The defendant filed a set off, consisting' chiefly of services and expenses, performed and laid out in obtaining a pardon for the plaintiff, when he was imprisoned as a convict for crime in the State Prison of Maine, at Thomaston. The case was referred to an auditor, who made a report, allowing the plaintiff, on his claim for work done for the defendant in May, June and July, 1850, the sum of $36, and the defendant, on his set-off, the sum of $37,65. The auditor further reports that, at the time the plaintiff commenced the work for the defendant, he offered…
1Opinion of the CourtBell, J.
The most material question, presented by this case, relates to the claim of the defendant for compensation for his time and expenses, in obtaining a pardon for the plaintiff, who was, at the time of the services, a convict in the State Prison of Maine.
There is nothing stated in the case which tends, in any degree, to cast suspicion upon the propriety or legality of the particular measures adopted by the defendant, to obtain a pardon in this case, if there are any measures which can be legally and properly used for such an object.
It is not at once apparent that it is not lawful and proper for…
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- Parker v. CraneNew York Supreme Court · 1831
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